requite
verb (used with object)
to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
requites
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present tense formof requite (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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But our little attention requites in a very small degree the obligations which I am under to your noble father’s family.
From The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales by R. Rice Davies
In other words, one is devoted to a friend when one knows him well, is true as steel to him, and basks in the sunshine of a love that requites that fidelity.
From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by John H. (John Henry) Stapleton
Fortune requites my Sufferings With too large a share of Happiness.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Montague Summers
It's the only thing I 've yet met that requites me for coming!
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever
I believe that he would be a very different boy if he were relieved from the misery he suffers at home and requites by mischievous pranks.
From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge
