Both Uses of
reparation
in
Don Quixote
- Search your memory, and if you find anything of this kind you need only tell me of it, and I promise you by the order of knighthood which I have received to procure you satisfaction and reparation to the utmost of your desire.†
Chpt 1.17-18
- If it disturb you, and I owe Some reparation, it may be a Defence for me to let you know Don Quixote's tears are on the flow, And all for distant Dulcinea Del Toboso.†
Chpt 1.25-26 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(reparation) compensation for a wrong -- usually an amount of money -- often payment required from the losing country in a war
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly and long ago, reparation can refer to repairs.