requital

Etymology

From requite + -al, 1570-1580.

noun

  1. Compensation for damage or loss; amends.
  2. Retaliation or reprisal; vengeance.
  3. Return in kind; recompense, repayment, reward.
    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. 1599, Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday, act I, scene 1
    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. 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (quoting Johnson)
    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. 2009, Dietrich von Hildebrand, The Nature of Love, page 233

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