recompense

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1. recompense - Noun

2. recompense - Verb

Meaning

To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.

To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.

To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.

To give recompense; to make amends or requital.

An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.

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If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble, he will not receive a reward for his labor. Recompense is given, not for labor, but for humility. Isaac the Syrian

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense. Percy Bysshe Shelley

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. William Hazlitt

To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. Emanuel Swedenborg

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. Germaine Greer

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