requite
verb (used with object)
to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
had requited
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past perfectof requite.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She was alarmed out of all presence of mind; and her indignation with the woman who had requited my kindness by allowing me to go into a house infected with fever knew no bounds.
From A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son by M. V. Wheelhouse
Nay, he had requited with insult the friendly intervention which might have saved him.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
The liberality with which he had been treated in the negotiation at Hungerford, and which he had requited by a breach of faith, would now be out of season.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Would to heaven that we had requited you better!’
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Being himself generally an old Cavalier, or the son of an old Cavalier, he reflected with bitter resentment on the ingratitude with which the Stuarts had requited their best friends.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
