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requite
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Definition:1. make appropriate return for a favor; to recompensate2. to retaliate
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The kindness of my uncle and aunt can never be requited.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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by a clause in the end, made a grant of one hundred moidores a year to him during his life, out of the effects, and fifty moidores a year to his son after him, for his life: and thus I requited my old man.
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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M. Mery. Who can blame this woman to fume and frette and rage?
Tut, tut, your selfe nowe haue marde your owne marriage.
Well, yet mistresse Custance, if ye can this remitte,
This gentleman other wise may your loue requitte.
C. Custance. No God be with you both, and seeke no more to me. Exeat.
Nicholas Udall. Roister Doister.
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Give it an understanding, but no tongue:
I will requite your loves. So, fare ye well:
William Shakespeare. Hamlet.
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