requite
verb (used with object)
to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
unrequiting
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a word derived from
requite.
Example Sentences
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He plants “love’s true kiss” on Angelina Jolie as the unrequiting subject of her storybook sorceress character’s affections in “Maleficent.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2017
By Act V, Helena's passion for her unrequiting snob has become an act of beatific willfulness and the stuff of gaslight melodrama.
From Time Magazine Archive
The joyous manner in which she expands socially, and scintillates conversationally, proves how keen her sufferings must have been in the uncomprehending and unrequiting circles in which we have been living.
From In Château Land by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
O Orcus’ unrequiting shade, Devouring all the good, the dear, Couldst thou not spare one birdling here?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
Ofttimes the unrequiting of human love makes the heart bitter.
From Personal Friendships of Jesus by J. R. (James Russell) Miller
