You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though you tortured yourself to death by doing it.
Quotes about reparation (11 Quotes)
My father died. His ornithological knowledge, never collected or collated in anything like a comprehensible book - it was five suitcases and two trunks of scattered notes - died with him. A loss of knowledge. I made a film in small part reparation.
REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity
REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
Equilibrium is found when within the process there's a good balance between justice and peace, which makes it clear that there must be reparation for the society and for the victims and that amnesty or pardon cannot take in atrocious crimes.
From a series of lectures given between 1790 and 1792. I go farther and now proceed to show, that in peculiar instances, in which those rights can receive neither protection nor reparation from civil government, they are, notwithstanding its institution, entitled still to that defence, and to those methods of recovery, which are justified and demanded in a state of nature. The defence of one's self, justly called the primary law of nature, is not, nor can it be abrogated by any regulation of municipal law.
Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.
REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction. Among the Anglo-Saxon a subject conceiving himself wronged by the king was permitted, on proving his injury, to beat a brazen image of the royal offender with a switch that was afterward applied to his own naked back. The latter rite was performed by the public hangman, and it assured moderation in the plaintiff's choice of a switch.
I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.