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Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv.

The act or process of indemnifying, preserving, or securing against loss, damage, or penalty; reimbursement of loss, damage, or penalty; the state of being indemnified. Indemnification is capable of some estimate; dignity has no standard. Burke.

To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure. The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out. Sir W. Temple.

Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed. Sir W. Scott.

The quality of being indemonstrable.

Incapable of being demonstrated. -- In`de*mon"stra*ble*ness, n.

The act of naturalizing; endenization. [R.] Evelyn.

To naturalize. [R.]

To invest with the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [R.] Words indenizened, and commonly used as English. B. Jonson.

To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.

The act of indenting or state of being indented.

Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.

With indentations.

Indentation; an impression like that made by a tooth.

Same as Indentation, 4.

Indenture. [Obs.]

The act of indenting, or state of being indented.

The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self- subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope.…

In the United States, a holiday, the 4th of July, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on that day in 1776.

Independence. "Give me," I cried (enough for me), "My bread, and independency!" Pope.