incompensable

From in- +‎ compensable.

incompensable (comparative more incompensable, superlative most incompensable)

1. Not compensable.

   Synonyms: irrecompensable, uncompensable, unrecompensable

   Antonyms: compensable, compensatable, recompensable

   • , London: E. Tyler, for Nath Brook , →OCLC, column 1:

     Incompenſable, (lat) uncapable of being recompenced.]

   • 1900, George Saintsbury, “‘Faultlessness’”, in A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day , volume I (Classical and Mediæval Criticism), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead, and Co.; Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II (Latin Criticism), chapter II (The Contemporaries of Quintilian), page 285:

     In nothing, perhaps, is this tendency of ancient criticism better shown than in its attitude to the question of Faultlessness. Of course, on this question there were two parties, with many subdivisions in each. There were the extreme classics of that classic time, the wooden persons of whom Martial tells us, for whom it was enough if a thing was not “correct,” to whom a fault was a fault—indelible, incompensable, to be judged off-hand and Draconically.

   • 1981, C D Baker, “Remedies”, in Tort (Concise College Texts), 3rd edition, London: Sweet & Maxwell, →ISBN, page 312:

     Two types of “loss” are inflicted upon one who suffers personal injuries. He may suffer actual financial loss such as loss of wages or reduction in his earning capacity. And he may suffer reduction in his enjoyment of his life, through pain and suffering and inability to participate in his usual activities, whether of a temporary or permanent nature. It is clear that the latter loss is incompensable in monetary terms.

   • 2011, Laura Westra, “The Common Good and the Public Interest: Jus Cogens Norms and Erga Omnes Obligations in a Lawless World”, in Human Rights: The Commons and the Collective, Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Basic Collective Rights for Law and Morality – The Theory), page 73:

     Finally and most significantly, the plaintiffs are using the few vague and incomplete legal categories presently available in domestic law to pinpoint the role of multinational corporations and the complicit governments that allow their activities to inflict incompensable harms that can only be described as crimes against humanity.