recompense
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French recompense, from Late Latin recompensare, from Latin re- (“again”) + compensare (“to balance out”)
PronunciationEdit
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, 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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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: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
- 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
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.