Both Uses of
indemnify
in
Utopia, by Thomas More
- They offer not only indemnity, but rewards, to such of the persons themselves that are so marked, if they will act against their countrymen.†
*indemnity = something that protects against future loss
- and if such a thing should fall out, for man is a changeable creature, yet, there being few priests, and these having no authority but what rises out of the respect that is paid them, nothing of great consequence to the public can proceed from the indemnity that the priests enjoy.†
Definition:
to protect someone from loss or to compensate them for harm or damage