Definitions for indemnity

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indemnity in·dem·ni·ty

Spelling: [in-dem-ni-tee]

IPA: /ɪnˈdɛm nɪ ti/

Indemnity is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in indemnity (deiimnnty).

Definitions for indemnity

noun

1. protection or security against damage or loss.
2. compensation for damage or loss sustained.
3. something paid by way of such compensation.
4. protection, as by insurance, from liabilities or penalties incurred by one's actions.
5. legal exemption from penalties attaching to unconstitutional or illegal actions, granted to public officers and other persons.

Origin of indemnity

1425-75; late Middle English indem(p)nite Latin indemnitās, equivalent to indemni(s) without loss (in- in-³ + -demn-, combining form of damn- (stem of damnum

Examples for indemnity

Invernahyle was afterwards pardoned under the Act of indemnity.

And that he was liberate upon the terms of the indemnity, &c.

But Monroe could not obtain any concession of principle or promise of indemnity.

The process of cleaning-up after the War involves an indemnity Bill.

Once in their clutches, and there would be no pardon and no indemnity.

The right of indemnity does not, however, constitute the principal point.

indemnity, swift and condign, does what mortal hand can do to heal the hurt.

Of all the countries that received an indemnity, America was the only one that tried to forget.

Pewee was now sure that the boat had been taken as indemnity for the chicken and the eggs.

But, after all, the cancelation of the German indemnity is something.