All 4 Uses of
compensate
in
Brave New World
- Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
p. 221..5 *compensations = things to make up for something else
- The religious sentiment will compensate us for all our losses.
p. 233..9compensate = make up for
- But there aren't any losses for us to compensate; religious sentiment is superfluous.
p. 233..9
- He pacified his conscience by promising himself a compensatingly harder self-discipline, purifications the more complete and thorough.
p. 244..1compensatingly = to make up for something else
Definition:
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(compensate as in: she compensates with extra effort) make up for; or adjust for