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/rˈɛkəmpˌɛns/ Listen

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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Etymology of 'Recompense'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Recompense" Quotes from Famous Books

... articles we could spare for a temporary present to the Indians. The disappointment at the non-arrival of the goods was seriously felt by us as we had looked forward with pleasure to the time when we should be enabled to recompense our kind Indian friends for their tender sympathy in our distresses, and the assistance they had so cheerfully and promptly rendered. I now regretted to find that Mr. Wentzel and his party, in their return from the sea, had suffered severely on their march ...

— The Journey to the Polar Sea • John Franklin

... dollars and weeks of perilous toil, while the surveyor had only stated that it was well done, and the men of Somasco had as yet no answer to the important question whether the Government would complete what remained unfinished or in any way recompense them. ...

— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss

... of such an expert as Mr. Cottrell is ample recompense," replied Lionel, laughing, and making a mock salaam of ...

— Belles and Ringers • Hawley Smart

... be the only just recompense," he answered. "See how impossible the thing appears. And yet a few pounds of dynamite would blow up the Great Pyramid. Giovanni Saracinesca is not so strong ...

— Saracinesca • F. Marion Crawford

... some other, rather political than moral, obtained such prevalence, that when Gay produced a second part, under the name of Polly, it was prohibited by the lord chamberlain; and he was forced to recompense his repulse by a subscription, which is said to have been so liberally bestowed, that what he called oppression ended in profit. The publication was so much favoured, that though the first part ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes - Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II • Samuel Johnson

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