requital
English
Etymology
From requite + -al, 1570-1580.
Pronunciation
- enPR: rĭ-kwītʹ-əl, IPA(key): /ɹɪ.ˈkwaɪt.əl/
Audio (Berkshire, England) (file)
- Hyphenation: re‧quit‧al
- Rhymes: -aɪtəl
Noun
requital (countable and uncountable, plural requitals)
- Compensation for loss or damage; amends.
- Retaliation or reprisal; vengeance.
- Repayment, reward, recompense, return in kind.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
- O, take his mother's thanks, a widow's thanks,
Till your strong hand shall help to give him strength
To make a more requital to your love.
- 1599, Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Act I, sc. 1:
- My lord mayor, you have sundry times
- Feasted myself and many courtiers more:
- Seldom or never can we be so kind
- To make requital of your courtesy.
- 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (quoting Johnson):
- In requittal [sic] of those well-intended offices, which you are pleased so emphatically to acknowledge, let me beg that you make in your devotions one petition for my eternal welfare.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, pages 309–310:
- What is the requital that the Athenians of the earth give to those who have struggled through the stormy water, and the dark night, for their applause?—both reproach and scorn.
- 2009, Dietrich von Hildebrand, The Nature of Love, p. 233:
- But we are thinking here above all of the happiness that comes with the requital of love, of the case in which my love is returned with an equal love.
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Translations
compensation for loss or damages
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Anagrams
- quartile