All 3 Uses of
recompense
in
David Copperfield
- For my part, I could have gone through a good deal (though I was much less brave than Traddles, and nothing like so old) to have won such a recompense.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- It was some small satisfaction to me to observe his spare, short-waisted, high-shouldered, mulberry-coloured great-coat perched up, in company with an umbrella like a small tent, on the edge of the back seat on the roof, while Agnes was, of course, inside; but what I underwent in my efforts to be friendly with him, while Agnes looked on, perhaps deserved that little recompense.†
Chpt 25-27
- And he said all this — I knew, as I saw his face in the moonlight — that I might understand he was resolved to recompense himself by using his power.†
Chpt 37-39
Definition:
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(recompense) to compensate for loss
or more rarely: to pay or reward