recompense
verb (used with object)
to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
recompenses
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present tense formof recompense (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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
The want of meaning she supplies with words, and the want of spirit she recompenses with malignity.—Johnson.
From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
That the obligations and the recompenses of the sexes are reciprocal, is true.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
It is the novelty which brings, it is the excitement which recompenses, the assemblage.
From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman
