indemnity
noun/ɪnˈdɛmnɪti/
Etymology From late Middle English indempnite, from Middle French indemnité, from Late Latin indemnitās (“security from damage”), from Latin indemnis (“undamaged”), from in- (“not”) + damnum (“damage”).
1
Security from damage, loss, or penalty.
- Near-synonyms: insurance, assurance
- And all this, it will be said, the Duke of Orleans might have prevented by an effective treaty, securing an act of indemnity.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 101:
2
Law An obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another.
- Near-synonyms: liability, responsibility
3
Repayment; compensation for loss or injury.
- Near-synonyms: reparations, recompense, recompensation; see also Thesaurus:compensation
- It would have been wise to modify rather than revoke the proclamation. But the Allies went further. Now, for the first time, were heard the words of indemnity for the past, and security for the future.1859, John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, The Life and Times of Charles James Fox, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, page 363:
4
Law The right of an injured party to shift the loss onto the party responsible for the loss.
- Derived terms
- double indemnity, indemnitee, indemnity costs, letter of indemnity