All 11 Uses
reparation
in
Little Dorrit
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- 'Is it possible, mother,' her son leaned forward to be the nearer to her while he whispered it, and laid his hand nervously upon her desk, 'is it possible, mother, that he had unhappily wronged any one, and made no reparation?'†
Chpt 1.5
- 'If reparation can be made to any one, if restitution can be made to any one, let us know it and make it.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- Has misgivings that the goods of this world which we have painfully got together early and late, with wear and tear and toil and self-denial, are so much plunder; and asks to whom they shall be given up, as reparation and restitution!'†
Chpt 1.5
- 'Reparation!' said she.†
Chpt 1.5
- It is easy for him to talk of reparation, fresh from journeying and junketing in foreign lands, and living a life of vanity and pleasure.†
Chpt 1.5
- I endure without murmuring, because it is appointed that I shall so make reparation for my sins.†
Chpt 1.5
- Reparation!†
Chpt 1.5
- But Mrs Clennam, resolved to treat herself with the greater rigour for having been supposed to be unacquainted with reparation, refused to eat her oysters when they were brought.†
Chpt 1.5
- It is, what can I do for my partner, how can I best make reparation to him?'†
Chpt 2.26
- I don't like the term "reparation," sir, except as a lever in the hands of counsel.†
Chpt 2.26
- If, through their consideration for his partner's innocence, the affairs could ever be got into such train as that the business could be profitably resumed, and its present downfall overcome, then his own share in it should revert to his partner, as the only reparation he could make to him in money value for the distress and loss he had unhappily brought upon him, and he himself, at as mall a salary as he could live upon, would ask to be allowed to serve the business as a faithful clerk.†
Chpt 2.26
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) Less commonly and long ago, reparation can refer to repairs.