reward
noun
a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
rewardable
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a word derived from
reward.
Example Sentences
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In Kipling's poem to Wolcott Balestier, Professor Genung sees "the discovery of a religion, or assignable and eternally rewardable relation to God, in those whose inner life is not introspective or self-expressive."
From Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by Henry Churchill King
The Elizabethan and intermediate dramatists, mirroring life as they saw it, displayed infidelity as a punishable crime and constancy as a rewardable virtue.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
