requite

UK /ɹɪˈkwaɪt/ US /ɹəˈkwaɪt/
verb 5noun 1

Definitions

verb

1

To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.)

But remember / (For that's my buſineſſe to you) that you three / From Millaine did ſupplant good Proſpero, / Expos'd vnto the Sea (vvhich hath requit it) / Him, and his innocent childe: for vvhich foule deed, / The Povvres, delaying (not forgetting) haue / Incens'd the Seas, and Shores; yea, all the Creatures / Againſt your peace: […]

He that requiteth a good turne, muſt imploy ſomevvhat of his ovvne, as he doth vvho repayeth the monie he ovveth: but he layeth out nothing vvho ſatisfieth himſelfe, no more then he giueth, vvho giueth to himſelfe. […] He therefore that requiteth a good turne pleaſureth him againe, from vvhom hee hath receiued any thing.

2

To repay (someone) a debt owed; specifically, to recompense or reward (someone) for a favour, a service rendered, etc.

Sir I am ſo poore to requite you, you muſt looke for nothing but thankes of me, […]

This place, to vvhich Ariſtotle ovv'd his birth, he aftervvards requited vvith extraordinary gratitude.

3

To respond to or reciprocate (feelings, especially affection or love which has been shown).

My loue is requyted ſo louyngly / That in euery thyng that may delyght my mynde, / My wyt can not wyſhe it ſo well as I fynde

To love thee boundless, was my bold resolve, / Because my courage fail'd to equal thee. / I then began with thousand tender arts / And pure fraternal love, thy heart to storm. / But cold, proud soul, requitedst thou this love.

4

To do or give a thing in return for (something).

5

To retaliate or seek revenge for (an insult, a wrong, etc.).; to avenge.

Let me this craue, ſith firſt I vvas defyde, / That firſt I may that vvrong to him requite: / And if I hap to fayle, you ſhall recure my right.

And when Joſephs brethren ſaw that their father was dead, they ſaid, Joseph will peraduenture hate vs, and will certainely requite vs all the euill which we did vnto him.

noun

1

Chiefly in the form in requite for or of: synonym of requital (“compensation for damage or loss; return in kind, recompense, repayment, reward”).

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