Indemnify
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈdɛm.nɪ.faɪ/
Origin 1
From indemn ("unhurt") + -ify (forming verbs)
Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "indemnify, v.
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". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1900.
Full definition of indemnify
Verb
- To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
- 1670, Sir William Temple, letter to Lord Arlington, in The Works of Sir William Temple, page 101:The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out.
- (To make restitution or compensation for)(chiefly legal) To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury
- 1906, Civil Code of the State of Californiahttp://books.google.com/books?id=Vds3AAAAIAAJ
- The lender of a thing for use must indemnify the borrower for damage caused by defects or vices in it, which he knew at the time of lending, and concealed from the borrower.
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Origin 2
Verb
- (obsolete, rare) to hurt, to harm
- 1583, Thomas Stocker's translation of A tragicall historie of the troubles and ciuile warres of the lowe Countries, i. 63aHe... did not belieue that his Maiestie by this occasion coulde any way be endemnified.
- 1593, Thomas Lodge, Life & Death of William Long Beard, E ijWhat harme the Rhodians haue doone thee, that thou so much indemnifiest them?