requital
Noun
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Noun
requital
- Compensation for loss or damage; amends.
- Retaliation or reprisal; vengeance.
- (archaic) Repayment, reward, recompense.
- mid-1590s, William Shakespeare, King John, Act II, sc. 1:
- O, take his mother's thanks, a widow's thanks,
- Till your strong hand shall help to give him strength
- To make a more requital to your love.
- 1599, Thomas Dekker (writer), The Shoemaker's Holiday, Act I, sc. 1:
- My lord mayor, you have sundry times
- Feasted myself and many courtiers more:
- Seldom or never can we be so kind
- To make requital of your courtesy.
- 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (quoting Johnson):
- In requittal [sic] of those well-intended offices, which you are pleased so emphatically to acknowledge, let me beg that you make in your devotions one petition for my eternal welfare.
- mid-1590s, William Shakespeare, King John, Act II, sc. 1:
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