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    reparation


    1. Thirdly, If government should at any time neglect the reparation of the high-roads, it would be still more difficult, than it is at present, to compel the proper application of any part of the turnpike tolls


    2. But, by the present practice, both the labour of the country people, and whatever other fund the king may choose to assign for the reparation of the high-roads in any particular province or generality, are entirely under the management of the intendant ; an officer who is appointed and removed by the king's council who receives his orders from it, and is in constant correspondence with it


    3. In China, and in several other governments of Asia, the executive power charges itself both with the reparation of the high-roads, and with the maintenance of the navigable canals


    4. Under the local or provincial administration of the justices of the peace in Great Britain, the six days labour which the country people are obliged to give to the reparation of the highways, is not always, perhaps, very judiciously applied, but it is scarce ever exacted with any circumstance of cruelty or oppression


    5. The committee are accused of having sent out bricks and stones from England for the reparation of Cape Coast Castle, on the coast of Guinea ; a business for which parliament had several times granted an extraordinary sum of money


    6. The whole expense of the church, including what is occasionally laid out for the building and reparation of churches, and of the manses of ministers, cannot well be supposed to exceed eighty or eighty-five thousand pounds a-year


    7. 29 Forasmuch as often there have been wars in the country in which for the maintenance of their sanctuary and the law Simon the son of Mattathias of the posterity of Jarib together with his brothers put themselves in jeopardy and resisting the enemies of their nation did their nation great honour; 30 For after that Jonathan having gathered his nation together and been their high priest was added to his people 31 Their enemies prepared to invade their country that they might destroy it and lay hands on the sanctuary: 32 At which time Simon rose up and fought for his nation and spent much of his own substance and armed the valiant men of his nation and gave them wages 33 And fortified the cities of Judea together with Bethsura that lies on the borders of Judea where the armour of the enemies had been before; but he set a garrison of Jews there: 34 Moreover he fortified Joppa which lies on the sea and Gazera that borders on Azotus where the enemies had dwelt before but he placed Jews there and furnished them with all things convenient for the reparation of it


    8. So much reparation, so much healing


    9. forgiveness (for-give) and with reparation, we can then assume its destructive-


    10. wrong and by offering a true reparation to ourselves and to others

    11. the only possible reparation for the hurts we have received, as though it were


    12. Most of the remaining factories in Germany had been dismantled and shipped to Russia and most patents and trade marks were practically given away to the victors as reparation


    13. O most holy trinity, father, son and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended


    14. The Christ child spoke first, “have compassion on the heart of your most Holy Mother, covered with thorns, with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment, and there is no one to make an act of reparation to remove them


    15. You, at least, try to console me and announce for me that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the grace necessary for salvation, all those who, on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, shall confess, receive holy communion, recite fifteen decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me


    16. Hara-kiri is an act of reparation for a wrong or an injury


    17. As for war reparation payments, Germany will do its honest best to pay for the damages it caused, but our only request is that the future of our children not be mortgaged by excessive repayments, one factor that directly led to the rise of the Nazis after the war of 1914-18


    18. of needing reparation from the hands


    19. reparation of the building site


    20. There is no way that any reparation can satisfy me

    21. This is the vindictive part that does not allow for any type of reparation, it wants only the other’s death


    22. The first question senor Lupez De Lobos asked the detective was how much reparation for the crime of his son being molested would they receive


    23. To expiate signifies to make satisfaction or reparation for guilt by some suffering or loss


    24. Search your memory, and if you find anything of this kind you need only tell me of it, and I promise you by the order of knighthood which I have received to procure you satisfaction and reparation to the utmost of your desire


    25. -- These were great concessions;--but where Marianne felt that she had injured, no reparation could be too much for her to make


    26. offering all the reparation in his power


    27. felt this cruelty, and by way of reparation, glued his own to them; then he


    28. "If a man had by unheard-of and excruciating tortures destroyed your father, your mother, your betrothed,—a being who, when torn from you, left a desolation, a wound that never closes, in your breast,—do you think the reparation that society gives you is sufficient when it interposes the knife of the guillotine between the base of the occiput and the trapezal muscles of the murderer, and allows him who has caused us years of moral sufferings to escape with a few moments of physical pain?"


    29. The reparation of a fissure of the length of 1 1/2 inches in the right side of his guest's jacket


    30. But, meanwhile, you have time to make some small reparation for the injury you have wrought

    31. The young gentleman was by me, kneeling, kissing my hand, and with tears in his eyes, beseeching me to forgive him, and offering all the reparation in his power


    32. But still I bore every thing without crying out: when presently giving me another pause, he rushed, as it were, on that part whose lips, and round about, had felt this cruelty, and by way of reparation, glued his own to them; then he opened, shut, squeezed them, plucked softly the overgrowing moss, and all this in a style of wild passionate rapture and enthusiasm, that expressed excess of pleasure; till betaking himself to the rod again, encouraged by my passiveness, and infuriated with this strange taste of delight, he made my poor posteriors pay for the ungovernableness of it; for now showing them no quarter, the traitor cut me so, that I wanted but little of fainting away, when he gave over


    33. In this way Mr Fegs got a foretaste of what had been concerted for his advantage; and Mr Peevie, in the mean time, through his helpmate, had, in like manner, not been idle; the effect of all which was, that next day, every where in the town, people spoke of Mr Hodden and Mr Fegs as being ordained to be the new councillors, in the stead of the two who had, as it was said, resigned in so unaccountable a manner, so that no candidates offered, and the election was concluded in the most candid and agreeable spirit possible; after which I had neither trouble nor adversary, but went on, in my own prudent way, with the works in hand—the completion of the new bridge, the reparation of the tolbooth steeple, and the bigging of the new schools on the piece of ground adjoining to my own at the Westergate; and in the doing of the latter job I had an opportunity of manifesting my public spirit; for when the scheme, as I have related, was some years before given


    34. been able to keep out his fixed idea of an outraged Church waiting for reparation from a penitent country


    35. In 1923 the German economy took a downturn and the government asked the French if they could suspend reparation payments until things picked up


    36. He told the workers in the Ruhr to get back to work, and he assured the French and Belgians that the reparation payments would resume


    37. Stresemann also negotiated a deal with the American financier Charles Dawes for a schedule of reparation payments, so Germany knew exactly how much she had to pay each year, instead of having to pay extra every time the French decided they were a bit short


    38. meant to go in search of, whom I have promised to her mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if I denounce myself


    39. Each one of them in turn makes what they call reparation


    40. The reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all the dissensions, for all the violations, for all the iniquities, for all the crimes committed on earth

    41. For the space of twelve consecutive hours, from four o'clock in the afternoon till four o'clock in the morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the afternoon, the sister who is making reparation remains on her knees on the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around her neck


    42. As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, it is called without distinction, to make reparation or


    43. To make reparation is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed


    44. Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was deserted, he could be seen on his knees in the middle of the walk which skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer


    45. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff


    46. You owe me reparation


    47. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten


    48. But meanwhile, you have time to make some small reparation for the injury you have wrought


    49. I resolved on my return to Petersburg to make every reparation within my power, that is, literally to make him an apology in any form he might select


    50. I was not permitted to see her, but I am determined to do anything to see her, acknowledge my guilt and make reparation even by marrying her




























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    Synonyms for "reparation"

    amends reparation fix fixing fixture mend mending repair renewal renovation restoration expiation compensation apology indemnity indemnification retribution

    "reparation" definitions

    compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury


    (usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors


    the act of putting something in working order again


    something done or paid in expiation of a wrong