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Definitioner
Substantiv
- An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
- That which compensates for an injury.
Verb
- To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
- To give compensation for an injury.
- (transitive) To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
Exempel
- He offered money as recompense for the damage, but what the injured party wanted as recompense was an apology.
- She in regard thereof him recompenst / With golden words, and goodly countenance, / And such fond fauours sparingly dispenst [...]
- He cannot recompense me better.
- The judge ordered the defendant to recompense the plaintiff by paying $100.
- Recompense to no man evil for evil.
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