recompenses
- present tense form of recompense (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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These works are among the great recompenses that experience offers us.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2014
“The Case for Reparations” is deeply focused on economic injuries and recompenses.
From Washington Post
It recompenses them for their sufferings; it renders them laborious, because to the greatest toils it attaches the greatest rewards.—Montesquieu.
From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray
As to recompenses and rewards they were regulated in this voyage much higher than was expressed in the first part of this book.
From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Haring, Clarence Henry
Well the poor souls who cannot feel tenderly about a past they have not yet experienced have their recompenses.
From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl
