recompense
verb (used with object)
to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
unrecompensed
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a word derived from
recompense.
Example Sentences
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Good deeds performed on Gospel motives, though unknown and unvalued by the world, will not go unrecompensed or unowned by Him who values the cup of cold water given in His name.
From Memories of Bethany by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)
Never, perhaps, have sterner accents affirmed the sovereignty of impersonal and unrecompensed law.
From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis
There is patient perseverance at unrecompensed, unrecorded, and unnoticed work.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander
If Joseph Duncombe doted on this bright-haired, blue-eyed daughter, his love was not unrecompensed.
From Run to Earth A Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Man dies with unrecompensed merit and guilt: the brute does not.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
