recompense
See also: récompense, récompensé, and recompensé
English
Alternative forms
- recompence (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɹɛkəmˈpɛns/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛns
Etymology 1
From Middle English recompense, borrowed from Old French recompense or Medieval Latin recompensa.
Noun
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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Synonyms
- meed
- payback
- recompence
- restitution
Related terms
- compensate
- recompensate
Translations
that which compensates for a harm done
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Etymology 2
From Middle English recompensen, borrowed from Old French recompenser, from Late Latin recompensare, from Latin re- (“again”) + compensare (“to balance out”).
Verb
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 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
- He cannot recompense me better.
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- To give compensation for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
- The judge ordered the defendant to recompense the plaintiff by paying $100.
- (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.
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Synonyms
- recompensate
Translations
to reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
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to give compensation
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Old French
Etymology
From recompenser.
Noun
recompense f (oblique plural recompenses, nominative singular recompense, nominative plural recompenses)
- recompense; compensation
Descendants
- English: recompense
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁe.kõˈpẽ.si/ [he.kõˈpẽ.si]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʁe.kõˈpẽ.si/ [χe.kõˈpẽ.si]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁe.kõˈpẽ.se/ [he.kõˈpẽ.se]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁɨ.kõˈpẽ.s(ɨ)/
Verb
recompense
- inflection of recompensar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
recompense
- inflection of recompensar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative