Both Uses of
compensate
in
The Age of Innocence
- …and the Headly Chiverses'); and at a time when it was beginning to be thought "provincial" to put a "crash" over the drawing-room floor and move the furniture upstairs, the possession of a ball-room that was used for no other purpose, and left for three-hundred-and-sixty-four days of the year to shuttered darkness, with its gilt chairs stacked in a corner and its chandelier in a bag; this undoubted superiority was felt to compensate for whatever was regrettable in the Beaufort past.†
Chpt 3
- Sincerely, then—what should you gain that would compensate for the possibility—the certainty—of a lot of beastly talk?†
Chpt 12 *
Definition:
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(compensate as in: she is generously compensated) to make payment to someone