recompense
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Middle English, from Old French recompense, from Late Latin recompensare, from Latin re- (“again”) + compensare (“to balance out”)
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[edit] Noun
recompense (plural recompenses)
- That which compensates for an injury.
- He offered money as recompense for the damage, but what the injured party wanted as recompense was an apology.
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that which compensates for an injury
[edit] Verb
recompense (third-person singular simple present recompenses, present participle recompensing, simple past and past participle recompensed)
- To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- She in regard thereof him recompenst / With golden words, and goodly countenance, / And such fond fauours sparingly dispenst [...].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- To give compensation for an injury.
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to give compensation
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[edit] Spanish
[edit] Verb
recompense (infinitive recompensar)
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of recompensar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of recompensar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of recompensar.
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