recompense
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French recompense, from Late Latin recompensare, from Latin re- (“again”) + compensare (“to balance out”)
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NounEdit
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, William 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.
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TranslationsEdit
that which compensates for a harm done
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VerbEdit
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 […]
- c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
- He cannot recompense me better.
- 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.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Romans 12:17:
- Recompense to no man evil for evil.
TranslationsEdit
to reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
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to give compensation
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Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From recompenser.
NounEdit
recompense f (oblique plural recompenses, nominative singular recompense, nominative plural recompenses)
DescendantsEdit
- English: recompense
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
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
SpanishEdit
VerbEdit
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.