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Jan. 30, 2015
Word of the Day

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\in-DEM-nuh-fahy\
verb
1. to compensate for damage or loss sustained, expense incurred, etc.
2. to guard or secure against anticipated loss; give security against (future damage or liability).
Quotes
She joked about that too, and asked Pentz, who seemed very silent today, to indemnify her. "Indemnify," she continued, "even that word is one of those everlasting parliamentary expressions…"
-- Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), translated by Douglas Parmée, Irretrievable, 1964
Origin
Indemnify entered English in the early 1600s from the Latin word indemnis meaning "without loss."
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