Sample Sentences for
recompense
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    An exception as recompense for the accident.  (source)
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    It was wrong what happened and one would like to recompense them somehow.  (source)
    recompense = compensate (for loss)
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    From whom should we claim the recompense of our damage, and aid for our widows and orphans?  (source)
    recompense = compensation (for loss)
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    Yet it is in your power to recompense me, and deliver them from an evil which it only remains for you to make so great, that not only you and your family, but thousands of others, shall be swallowed up in the whirlwinds of its rage.  (source)
    recompense = compensate
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    "All the toil," Geyer said, "all the weary days and weeks of travel—toil and travel in the hottest months of the year, alternating between faith and hope, and discouragement and despair, all were recompensed in that one moment, when I saw the veil about to lift."  (source)
    recompensed = compensated for
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    Afterwards, not onely Kings, but popular Common-wealths, gave divers manners of Scutchions, to such as went forth to the War, or returned from it, for encouragement, or recompence to their service.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled recompense.
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    He said much to me, also, of the proprietor's good disposition towards the province, and of the advantage it might be to us all, and to me in particular, if the opposition that had been so long continu'd to his measures was dropt, and harmony restor'd between him and the people; in effecting which, it was thought no one could be more serviceable than myself; and I might depend on adequate acknowledgments and recompenses, etc., etc. The drinkers, finding we did not return immediately to the table, sent us a decanter of Madeira, which the governor made liberal use of, and in proportion became more profuse of his solicitations and promises.†  (source)
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    Her mother was her best friend and had put every last possibility into the guiding of her, not so rare a thing in the theatrical profession, but rather special in that Mrs. Elsie Speers was not recompensing herself for a defeat of her own.†  (source)
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    In like manner it belongeth to the Office, and Duty of the Soveraign, to apply his Rewards alwayes so, as there may arise from them benefit to the Common-wealth: wherein consisteth their Use, and End; and is then done, when they that have well served the Common-wealth, are with as little expence of the Common Treasure, as is possible, so well recompenced, as others thereby may be encouraged, both to serve the same as faithfully as they can, and to study the arts by which they may be enabled to do it better.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled recompensed.
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    Shall the height Send wings, and hide her in the vaulted sky To work red murder on her lords, and fly Unrecompensed?†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrecompensed means not and reverses the meaning of recompensed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I may be able to help you. But I will desire recompense.  (source)
    recompense = compensation or payment
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    The chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle with which he paid for the Turkey, and the chuckle with which he paid for the cab, and the chuckle with which he recompensed the boy, were only to be exceeded by the chuckle with which he sat down breathless in his chair again, and chuckled till he cried.†  (source)
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    As for Mrs Waters, she took the opportunity of the coach which was going to Bath; for which place she set out in company with the two Irish gentlemen, the landlady kindly lending her her cloaths; in return for which she was contented only to receive about double their value, as a recompence for the loan.†  (source)
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