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 vulgar, insatiable curiosity of the general world breeds such traitors as these makers of post-mortem recollections; breeds them, nourishes them, recompenses them.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
"Ah! if he recompenses me as I deserve," he could not help reflecting, "he will send me great disasters indeed."
From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Julia Pardoe
I pray to Ormuzd, who recompenses good works, who delivers unto the end all those who obey his laws.
