compensatory
Adjective
Meaning
Serving for compensation; making amends.
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Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
Is it with us a compensatory fact that, being more stupid in the mass, we shoot up higher, when we do shoot up, in dazzling concentrations of intellectual power and so produce what we describe as "genius"? For "genius" is with us an individual thing. Whereas all Jews are little geniuses.
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.