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Definition of Recompense

Recompense 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. Related Definitions: Amends, An, Anything, As, Atone, Back, Compensate, Compensation, Deserved, Done, Earned, Equivalent, For, Give, Given, In, Loss, Make, Or, Pay, Recompense, Remunerate, Render, Requital, Requite, Return, Returned, Service, Something, Suffered, Suitable, To

Recompense Quotations There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. Samuel Johnson May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense. Lucius Annaeus Seneca To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. William Hazlitt 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 True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. Emanuel Swedenborg

Recompense Translations recompense in French is restituer recompense in Latin is merces mercedis

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