Word Meanings - RECOMPENSEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Recompense; requital. Fabyan.
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- RECOMPENSER
One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe. - RECOMPENSEMENT
Recompense; requital. Fabyan. - RECOMPENSE
recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for; - REQUITAL
The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds. No merit