All 5 Uses of
compensate
in
War and Peace
- …of securing an armed peace, the French Emperor's love and habit of war coinciding with his people's inclinations, allurement by the grandeur of the preparations, and the expenditure on those preparations and the need of obtaining advantages to compensate for that expenditure, the intoxicating honors he received in Dresden, the diplomatic negotiations which, in the opinion of contemporaries, were carried on with a sincere desire to attain peace, but which only wounded the self-love of…†
Chpt 9
- At the end of the report the general put before him for signature a paper relating to the recovery of payment from army commanders for green oats mown down by the soldiers, when landowners lodged petitions for compensation.†
Chpt 10
- I don't order it or allow it, but I don't exact compensation either.†
Chpt 10 *
- When they heard Napoleon's proclamation offering them, as compensation for mutilation and death, the words of posterity about their having been in the battle before Moscow, they cried "Vive l'Empereur!" just as they had cried "Vive l'Empereur!" at the sight of the portrait of the boy piercing the terrestrial globe with a toy stick, and just as they would have cried "Vive l'Empereur!" at any nonsense that might be told them.†
Chpt 10
- After a while the Tsar's decree came: to set the merchant free and give him a compensation that had been awarded.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(compensate as in: she is generously compensated) to make payment to someone