Word Meanings - RESTITUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body. (more info) 1. The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or

Additional info about word: RESTITUTION

The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body. (more info) 1. The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification. A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown. Spenser. He restitution to the value makes. Sandys. 2. That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESTITUTION)

• Amends
• compensation
• satisfaction
• acknowledgment
• atonement
• expiation
• recompense
• indemnity
• remuneration
• apology
• reparation
• restitution
• Compensation
• Remuneration
• equivalent
• wages
• pay
• allowance
• restoration
• indemnification
• amercement
• damages
• Recovery
• Repossession
• regaining
• reinstatement
• vindication
• renovation
• re-establishment
• retrieval
• rectification
• replacement
• reanimation
• resuscitation
• revival
• redemption
• Reparation
• Restoration
• repair
• amends
• renewal
• redintegration
• return

Related words: (words related to RESTITUTION)

• WAGES
  A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2. The wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23. Wages fund , the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is
• APOLOGY
  1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
• RENOVATION
  The act or process of renovating; the state of being renovated or renewed. Thomson. There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the world. Rabbler.
• REDEMPTIONER
  1. One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude. 2. Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.
• INDEMNITY
  1. Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed. Sir W. Scott. 2.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• REDEMPTIONIST
  A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian.
• REPARATION
  1. The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, repair is oftener used. Arbuthnot. 2. The act of making amends or giving satisfaction
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• REANIMATION
  The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.
• RECOMPENSER
  One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe.
• RESTITUTION
  The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body. (more info) 1. The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or
• REVIVALISM
  The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.
• VINDICATION
  The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of
• RECOMPENSEMENT
  Recompense; requital. Fabyan.
• REINSTATEMENT
  The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated; re
• REPAIRABLE
  Reparable. Gauden.
• EXPIATION
  1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. W. Irving. 2. The means by which reparation
• REVIVAL
  The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Specifically: Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature. Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature. Renewed interest in religion,
• ACKNOWLEDGMENT
  1. The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault." Froude. 2. The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth,
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• UNSATISFACTION
  Dissatisfaction. Bp. Hall.
• RECOMPENSE
  recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for;
• DISREPAIR
  A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.
• INSATISFACTION
  1. Insufficiency; emptiness. Bacon. 2. Dissatisfaction. Sir T. Browne.