All 3 Uses of
recompense
in
Great Expectations
- To have struggled with him in the street, or to have exacted any lower recompense from him than his heart's best blood, would have been futile and degrading.†
Chpt 30 *
- "And then, dear boy, it was a recompense to me, look'ee here, to know in secret that I was making a gentleman.†
Chpt 39
- But there was recompense in the joy with which Herbert would come home of a night and tell me of these changes, little imagining that he told me no news, and would sketch airy pictures of himself conducting Clara Barley to the land of the Arabian Nights, and of me going out to join them (with a caravan of camels, I believe), and of our all going up the Nile and seeing wonders.†
Chpt 52
Definition:
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(recompense) to compensate for loss
or more rarely: to pay or reward