Both Uses of
recompense
in
Measure for Measure
- We shall advise this wronged maid to stead up your appointment, go in your place; if the encounter acknowledge itself hereafter, it may compel him to her recompense: and here, by this, is your brother saved, your honour untainted, the poor Mariana advantaged, and the corrupt deputy scaled.†
Scene 3.1recompense = compensate for a loss; or pay a reward
- Your highness said even now I made you a duke; good my lord, do not recompense me in making me a cuckold.†
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Definition:
compensation for loss; or payment or reward
Recompense is seldom used in modern literature.