requital

English

Etymology

From requite +‎ -al, 1570-1580.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĭ-kwītʹ-əl, IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkwaɪt.əl/

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• Hyphenation: re‧quit‧al
• Rhymes: -aɪtəl

Noun

requital (countable and uncountable, plural requitals)

1. Compensation for damage or loss; amends.

   Synonym: requite

2. Retaliation or reprisal; vengeance.
3. Return in kind; recompense, repayment, reward.

   Synonym: requite

   • c. 1596 (date written), 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, [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, scene 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, 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, page 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.

Translations

compensation for loss or damages

• Bulgarian: компенсация (bg) f (kompensacija), обезщетение (bg) n (obezštetenie)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌹 n (andalauni)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀμοιβή f (amoibḗ)

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