recompence

English

Noun

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

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

1. Obsolete form of recompense.