Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

unrecompensed

  • a word derived from recompense.
    recompense
    verb (used with object)
    to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

If Joseph Duncombe doted on this bright-haired, blue-eyed daughter, his love was not unrecompensed.

From Run to Earth A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

She meant that her sufferings would perhaps not go unrecompensed.

From Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House by Anthony Hope

Her passion of gratitude could not let his service go all unrecompensed.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

The cabildo recommend that the archdeacon Juan de Bivero receive from the king some reward for his hitherto unrecompensed services in the Philippines.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

It is therefore purposely that the end presents no great event, and leaves Marian unrecompensed save by the effects her consistent well doing has produced on her companions.

From The Two Guardians or, Home in This World by Charlotte Mary Yonge

More Suggestions