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    requital


    1. 10 And I will give the wicked in requital for his burial and the rich for his death: for he did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth: and the Lord is willing to purify him from stripes


    2. If he is of high manners, his requital will bring out the malice from the heart of the chastised one


    3. Such is the requital for the good deeds


    4. Such is the requital for the wrongdoers


    5. She never battled with the public, but submitted, uncomplainingly, to its worst usage; she made no claim upon it, in requital for


    6. None so ready as she to give of her little substance to every demand of poverty; even though the bitter-hearted pauper threw back a gibe in requital of the food brought regularly to his door, or the garments wrought for him by the fingers that could have embroidered a monarch's robe


    7. Heretofore, the mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze; which spends its time in airy sport, and has its gusts of inexplicable passion, and is petulant in its best of moods, and chills oftener than caresses you, when you take it to your bosom; in requital of which misdemeanors, it will sometimes, of its own vague purpose, kiss your cheek with a kind of doubtful tenderness, and play gently with your hair, and then be gone about its other idle business, leaving a dreamy pleasure at your heart


    8. Whenever Pearl saw anything to excite her ever-active and wandering curiosity, she flew thitherward and, as we might say, seized upon that man or thing as her own property, so far as she desired it; but without yielding the minutest degree of control over her motions in requital


    9. I have been hard and cruel, and laid heavy burdens upon men, but I believe that for the woes and wanderings that lie before me, God wiU not leave me without requital, seeing that to leave all this is no little cross and no Uttle woe


    10. They always decide it thus: that division of labor is right only when a special branch of man’s activity is so needful to men, that they, entreating him to serve them, voluntarily propose to support him in requital for that which he shall do for them

    11. And what, I ask this House, has the British Minister given us in requital for this change of our position in relation to him and his rival belligerent? The revocation of the Orders in Council—this is the mighty boon


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    Synonyms for "requital"

    payment requital retribution redress amends damages satisfaction consideration compensation

    "requital" definitions

    a justly deserved penalty


    an act of requiting; returning in kind