The Only Use
recompense
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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- HERMIA Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes; Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense:—Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found; Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound.†
Scene 3.2recompense = compensate for a loss; or pay a reward
Definitions:
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(1)
(recompense) compensation for loss; or payment or rewardRecompense is seldom used in modern literature.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)