Sample sentences for RESTITUTION

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Definition

money paid in compensation for loss

or:

restoring a previous condition — especially getting back something lost or stolen

Reformed in all ways but monetary restitution, I might add.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

Bournisien defended it; he enlarged on the acts of restitution that it brought about.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
He has allowed us, and by 'us' I mean the Fishers and the Bauers, to approach all of you with a plan to make restitution.
Edward Bloor -- Tangerine
Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience; he makes restitution.
William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
'Make restitution to an innocent and unoffending child, for such he is, although the offspring of a guilty and most miserable love.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
She wanted to make restitution.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
He spoke quietly to her, asking her to make restitution of the money she had ehoused, and gave her a penance.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
It was not exactly that I felt I owed Lucy Stark a debt, or had to make restitution, or do penance.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
The divine tribunal had changed its aspect for him; self-prostration was no longer enough, and he must bring restitution in his hand.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
Most of us can't go back and make restitution.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
He did it for Michelle, though she would never know of the vandalism or of this act of restitution.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
Only they need know of the restitution.
Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
Mme. Coquenard recognized her present, and could not at first comprehend this restitution; but the visit of Porthos soon enlightened her.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
Restitution or penalty they shall pay- and pay in full-or I go down forever to light the dead men in the underworld.
Homer -- The Odyssey
When robbery is done in open daylight by sanction of the law, as it is done today, then any act of honor or restitution has to be hidden underground.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
Others-such as myself-had fortunes stolen from us by the Viet Minh; the only path to restitution was if the Americans won the war.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
The equation, so long out of balance, cried for restitution.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
For example: You brought a divorce case, or a restitution case, into the Consistory.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
"No, your excellency," returned Bertuccio; "it was a vendetta followed by restitution."
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
"Restitution is one of the steps a person has to take for teshuvah," my father said.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart

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