recompense
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French recompense, from Late Latin recompensare, from Latin re- (“again”) + compensare (“to balance out”)
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Noun[edit]
recompense (countable and uncountable, plural recompenses)
- An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
- That which compensates for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
- 1609, Wiulliam Shakespeare. Sonnet 23:
- O let my books be then the eloquence
- And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
- Who plead for love and look for recompense
- More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.
- He offered money as recompense for the damage, but what the injured party wanted was an apology.
- 1609, Wiulliam Shakespeare. Sonnet 23:
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Translations[edit]
that which compensates for a harm done
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Verb[edit]
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 […]
- Shakespeare
- He cannot recompense me better.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- To give compensation for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
- (transitive) To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
- Bible, Rom. xii. 17
- Recompense to no man evil for evil.
- Bible, Rom. xii. 17
Translations[edit]
to reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
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to give compensation
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Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From recompenser.
Noun[edit]
recompense f (oblique plural recompenses, nominative singular recompense, nominative plural recompenses)
Descendants[edit]
- English: recompense
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
recompense
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of recompensar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of recompensar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of recompensar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of recompensar
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
recompense
- 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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- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar
