indemnify
verb (used with object)
to compensate for damage or loss sustained, expense incurred, etc.
was indemnifying
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past progressiveof indemnify.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He was indemnifying himself for the court which he found it expedient to pay to the Ministers by exercising much petty tyranny within his own college.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
