Word Meanings - REFACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
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The upper stage of a porcelian furnace. - RECOMPENSER
One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe. - RECOMPENSEMENT
Recompense; requital. Fabyan. - RETRIBUTION
1. The act of retributing; repayment. In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly. Bp. Hall. 2. That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, - RECOMPENSE
recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for;