Requital

/ɹɪˈkwaɪt.əl/ · noun

Meaning

Compensation for damage or loss; amends..

Definitions by Sense

1. Compensation for damage or loss; amends.
2. Retaliation or reprisal; vengeance.
3. Return in kind; recompense, repayment, reward.

Example Sentences

In requittal [sic] of those well-intended offices, which you are pleased so emphatically to acknowledge, let me beg that you make in your devotions one petition for my eternal welfare.

O, take his mother's thanks, a widow's thanks, / Till your strong hand shall help to give him strength / To make a more requital to your love.

My lord mayor, you have sundry times / Feasted myself and many courtiers more: / Seldom or never can we be so kind / To make requital of your courtesy.

What is the requital that the Athenians of the earth give to those who have struggled through the stormy water, and the dark night, for their applause?—both reproach and scorn.

But we are thinking here above all of the happiness that comes with the requital of love, of the case in which my love is returned with an equal love.

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