All 4 Uses of
recompense
in
Bleak House
- Guster has some recompenses for her many privations.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- …miserable existence, if it were only to prevent their detestable English from contaminating a language spoken in the presence of the sun—as to those fellows, who meanly take advantage of the ardour of gentlemen in the pursuit of knowledge to recompense the inestimable services of the best years of their lives, their long study, and their expensive education with pittances too small for the acceptance of clerks, I would have the necks of every one of them wrung and their skulls arranged…†
Chpt 13-15
- If the spirit of a sainted wooman hovers above us and looks down on the occasion, that, and your constant affection, will be my recompense.†
Chpt 28-30
- However, I could take some toast and some hot negus, and as I really enjoyed that refreshment, it made some recompense.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(recompense) to compensate for loss
or more rarely: to pay or reward