All 4 Uses
compensate
in
Brave New World
(Edited)
- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(compensate as in: she compensates with extra effort) make up for; or adjust for
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(2)
(compensate as in: she is generously compensated) to make payment to someone
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)