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noun

Recompense n. An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return. "To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense." "And every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward."

Synonyms: Repayment; compensation; remuneration; amends; satisfaction; reward; requital.

verb

Recompense v. t. (past & past part. recompensed; pres. part. recompensing)

To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. "He can not recompense me better."

To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for. "God recompenseth the gift." "To recompense My rash, but more unfortunate, misdeed."

To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved. (R.) "Recompense to no man evil for evil."

Synonyms: To repay; requite; compensate; reward; remunerate.

Recompense v. i. To give recompense; to make amends or requital. (Obs.)

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"Recompense" Quotes from Famous Books

... trust in thee, Divine Mediator! I have chanted the canticle of the new covenant; my race is run; Thou hast pardoned my tottering steps! Sound! sound, quivering strings of my lyre! My heart is full of the bliss of gratitude to my God! What recompense could I ask? I have tasted the cup of angels in singing of ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... let not this too much, my son, Disturb thy youthful breast; This partial view of humankind Is surely not the best! The poor, oppressed, honest man, Had never, sure, been born, Had there not been some recompense To ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various

... feast to him who dared not expect more than a place among the hired servants. He gives not by drops, but in floods, answering the prayer for the taking away of iniquity by the promise to heal backsliding, going beyond desires and hopes in the gift of love which asks for no recompense, is drawn forth by no desert, but wells up from the depths of God's heart, and strengthens the new, tremulous trust of the penitent by the assurance that every trace of anger is effaced ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII • Alexander Maclaren

... it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of Jehovah, and the excellency of our God. Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees, Say to them that are of a fearful heart. Be strong, fear not, behold your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense, he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams, ...

— Five Pebbles from the Brook • George Bethune English

... sentence, his late sovereign; and should be happy, if in his future destiny he could follow him to the same blissful mansions, where his piety and humane virtues had already, without doubt, secured him an eternal recompense. ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. - From Charles I. to Cromwell • David Hume

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