recompense
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌɹɛkəmˈpɛns/
recompense
- An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
- That which compensates for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
- 1609, Wiulliam Shakespeare. Sonnet 23:
- O let my books be then the eloquence
- And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
- Who plead for love and look for recompense
- More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.
- He offered money as recompense for the damage, but what the injured party wanted was an apology.
- 1609, Wiulliam Shakespeare. Sonnet 23:
- French: récompense
- German: Entschädigung
- Portuguese: compensação
- Russian: компенса́ция
- Spanish: recompensa
recompense (recompenses, present participle recompensing; past and past participle recompensed)
- To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- She in regard thereof him recompenst / With golden words, and goodly countenance, / And such fond fauours sparingly dispenst […]
- c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene iii]:
- He cannot recompense me better.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- To give compensation for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
- (transitive) To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
- Bible, Rom. xii. 17
- Recompense to no man evil for evil.
- Bible, Rom. xii. 17
- Portuguese: recompensar
- Spanish: recompensar
- French: récompenser
- German: entschädigen
- Portuguese: compensar
- Russian: компенси́ровать
- Spanish: compensar
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