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/rɪwˈɔrd/ /riwˈɔrd/ Listen

noun

Reward n.

Regard; respect; consideration. (Obs.) "Take reward of thine own value."

That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital. "Thou returnest From flight, seditious angel, to receive Thy merited reward." "Rewards and punishments do always presuppose something willingly done well or ill."

Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works. "The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward."

(Law) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act.

Synonyms: Recompense; compensation; remuneration; pay; requital; retribution; punishment.

verb

Reward v. t. (past & past part. rewarded; pres. part. rewarding) To give in return, whether good or evil; commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. "After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord." "Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil." "I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me." "God rewards those that have made use of the single talent."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reward" Quotes from Famous Books

... getting above the mists and clouds whenever I have lightened myself of some portion of the mental ballast I have carried with me. Why should I hope or fear when I send out my book? I have had my reward, for I have wrought out my thought, I have said my say, I have freed my soul. I can afford to ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... Peakslow coolly replied; "but as no reward was offered for anything but the hoss, ...

— The Young Surveyor; - or Jack on the Prairies • J. T. Trowbridge

... as a Challon before re-birth as a dog. Its brain received instantly all 'my' training, so that it became at once 'mature.' What I have endured in these eight years—the isolation of mind and inadequacy of body—have been a blunderer's reward visited upon his victim as a further injury. Now that Homer lies near death—and 'I' with him, of course—I welcome 'our' approaching release ...

— The Short Life • Francis Donovan

... her love. One way there was, and one way only, of proving to herself that she had not fallen below the worthiness which purest love demanded, that she had indeed offered to Wilfrid a soul whose life was chastity—and that must be utterly to renounce love's earthly reward, and in spirit to be faithful to him while her life lasted. The pain of such renunciation was twofold, for did she not visit him with equal affliction? Had she the right to do that? The question was importunate, and she held it a temptation of her weaker self. Wilfrid ...

— A Life's Morning • George Gissing

... almost to tears. "Thanks, Amelie; when you are proud of me I shall begin to feel pride of myself. Your opinion is the one thing in life I have most cared for,—your approbation is my best reward." ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

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