The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reparation \Rep`a*ra"tion\ (-r?"sh?n), n. [F. r['e]paration, L. reparatio. See Repair to mend.]
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.-
The act of making amends or giving satisfaction or compensation for a wrong, injury, etc.; also, the thing done or given; amends; satisfaction; indemnity;
--used, e.g. in the phrasepay reparations, or
I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.
--Dryden.Syn: Restoration; repair; restitution; compensation; amends; satisfaction.
Usage examples of "make reparation".
For whether by force he begins the injury, or else having quietly and by fraud done the injury, he refuses to make reparation, and by force maintains it, which is the same thing as at first to have done it by force.
I have it by revelation of God that the tribulation wherein you stand is come upon you in requital of a sin which you did once commit, of which God is minded that this suffering be a partial purgation, and that you make reparation in full, if you would not find yourself in a far more grievous plight.
We're willing to make reparation as we can, but we still wish to fly in space.
Chayin, I must find, and Sereth also must I confront and make reparation for what Khys's Estri had said and done.
We charge you to make reparation out of your own treasuries to the families of those you have slain.
And if ever he needed to make reparation to his luck, it was tonight.
The chief in vain protested that it was all a mistake and offered to make reparation.