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Recompense

noun

Payment or reward (as for service rendered).

The act of compensating for service or loss or injury. Synonym: compensation.

verb

(past & past part. recompensed; pres. part. recompensing)

Make amends for; pay compensation for. Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, repair. "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident"

Make payment to; compensate. Synonyms: compensate, remunerate.

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"Recompense" Quotes from Famous Books

... unless, indeed, the fire of charity has so purified you in this life that you may pass, without any purgatory at all, straight to the home of the blessed who surround the throne of the Lord, there to receive a recompense for earthly martyrdom." ...

— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... been more pitiful to them than longer life would have been. It had taken the one in the loyalty of love, and the other in the innocence of faith, from a world which for love has no recompense ...

— A Dog of Flanders • Louisa de la Rame)

... (or Ganymede as she must now be called) with her manly garb seemed to have put on a manly courage. The faithful friendship Celia had shown in accompanying Rosalind so many weary miles, made the new brother, in recompense for this true love, exert a cheerful spirit, as if he were indeed Ganymede, the rustic and stout-hearted brother of the gentle village ...

— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb

... tendency or what are good. Thy knowledge, as thy power, is unlimited. I have taken thee for my guide, and cannot err. To the arms of thy protection, I entrust my safety. In the awards of thy justice, I confide for my recompense. ...

— Wieland; or The Transformation - An American Tale • Charles Brockden Brown

... worship to images, and prostrate themselves before idols: No peace unto you, saith my God! Know that ye acted foolishly to awaken the slumbering lion, to rouse up the lion's whelp, to excite his wrath. I am ready to pay you your recompense. Be ye prepared to meet me, for within a week I shall be with you to slay ...

— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IV BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG

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