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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
recompense .
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Examples
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The Mysteress had smiled demurely: “I daresay I have my recompenses to balance out the drawbacks.”
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"If Lebanon can find a more durable social contract in the years to come," Mr. Young writes, "it will do so thanks to the efforts of modest men and women, those who have a realistic understanding of the recompenses and constraints of their system, not the visionaries who will burden the system with their egoism."
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All the other powers of literature are coy and haughty, they must be long courted, and at last are not always gained; but Criticism is a goddess easy of access and forward of advance, who will meet the slow, and encourage the timorous; the want of meaning she supplies with words, and the want of spirit she recompenses with malignity.
How to Be a Book Critic - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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All the other powers of literature are coy and haughty, they must be long courted, and at last are not always gained; but Criticism is a goddess easy of access and forward of advance, who will meet the slow, and encourage the timorous; the want of meaning she supplies with words, and the want of spirit she recompenses with malignity.
How to Be a Book Critic - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Lady recompenses her Mother's careful Education with some beggarly Beau, or rake − hell Gamester, who, perhaps, never had Luck in his Life but in winning of her.
Exilius 2008
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These promised recompenses mean nothing to me unless they entail a refund of 'overpaid' tax.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2008
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It is scarcely to be imagined that nature bestows recompenses, but it is probable that the blood of women being milder, their fibres harden less quickly.
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Guster has some recompenses for her many privations.
Bleak House 2007
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A day comes when they make amends for all the pain they gave us; they repay us for the pangs, the keenness of which they recognize, in joys a hundred-fold, even as God, they tell us, recompenses our good works.
The Magic Skin 2007
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She is not rich, but offers such and such little recompenses for the little cares and derangements of such services; and I graciously — to do everything graciously is a part of my character — consent to accept them.
Little Dorrit 2007
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