requitement
English
Etymology
requite + -ment
Noun
requitement (countable and uncountable, plural requitements)
- (obsolete) requital
- (Can we find and add a quotation of E. Hall to this entry?)
- 1880, Puck (volume 7, page 126)
- Hamlet would requite his loves. Hewitt has soured on requitements. Hamlet would teach deep drinking. Hewitt is on the temperance dodge.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for requitement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)