recompence

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Noun

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recompence (countable and uncountable, plural recompences)

  1. Obsolete form of recompense.
    • c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of [] Compositions for Alienations:
      The fees , or allowances , that are termly given to these deputies , receiver , and clerks , for recompence of these their pains , I do purposely pretermit ; because they be not certain , but arbitrary

Verb

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recompence (third-person singular simple present recompences, present participle recompencing, simple past and past participle recompenced)

  1. Obsolete form of recompense.