All 4 Uses
recompense
in
Twelfth Night
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- I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse; My master, not myself, lacks recompense.†
p. 43.6 *recompense = compensate for a loss; or pay a reward
- It were a bad recompense for your love, to lay any of them on you.†
p. 49.3
- This is to give a dog; and in recompense desire my dog again.†
p. 161.3
- Maria writ The letter, at Sir Toby's great importance; In recompense whereof he hath married her.†
p. 187.1
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)