All 3 Uses of
reparation
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "If it be so," replied the magistrate, "rely upon every reparation being made; meanwhile, I am the bearer of an order of arrest, and although I most reluctantly perform the task assigned me, it must, nevertheless, be fulfilled.†
Chpt 5-6
- 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…†
Chpt 35-36 *
- " ' "Because, sir," said the president, "you have insulted a man, and that man will not go one step farther without demanding honorable reparation."†
Chpt 75-76
Definition:
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(reparation) compensation for a wrong -- usually an amount of money