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Definition
to compensate for loss
or more rarely: to pay or reward
or more rarely: to pay or reward
- Nor you, mistress, Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour To recompense your love: doubt not but heaven Hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower, As it hath fated her to be my motive And helper to a husband.4.4 — Act 4 Scene 4 — Florence. A room in the Widow's house (50% in)
There are no more uses of "recompense" in All's Well That Ends Well.
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