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Word Meanings - REQUITAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds. No merit

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The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds. No merit their aversion can remove, Nor ill requital can efface their love. Waller. Syn. -- Compensation; recompense; remuneration; reward; satisfaction; payment; retribution; retaliation; reprisal; punishment.

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  • REPAYMENT
    1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
  • REVENGEFUL
    Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak. Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious.
  • RECIPROCATION
    1. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness. 2. Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides. Sir T. Browne.
  • REVENGEMENT
    Revenge. He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.
  • 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,
  • REVENGEABLE
    Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.
  • REVENGEANCE
    Vengeance; revenge.
  • REVENGER
    One who revenges. Shak.
  • REQUITAL
    The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds. No merit
  • RETALIATION
    The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. God . . . takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise
  • VENGEANCELY
    Extremely; excessively. "He loves that vengeancely." Beau. & Fl.
  • REVENGELESS
    Unrevenged. Marston.
  • REVENGE
    to avenge, revenge, F. venger, L. vindicare. See Vindicate, 1. To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person
  • VENGEANCE
    vindicare to lay claim to, defend, avenge, fr. vindex a claimant, defender, avenger, the first part of which is of uncertain origin, and the last part akin to dicere to say. See Diction, and cf. Avenge, 1. Punishment inflicted in return for an
  • AVENGEANCE
    Vengeance.
  • PREPAYMENT
    Payment in advance.

 

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