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requital

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re·quit·al  (r-kwtl)
n.
1. The act of requiting.
2. Return, as for an injury or friendly act.

requital [rɪˈkwaɪtəl]
n
1. the act or an instance of requiting
2. a return or compensation for a good or bad action
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.requital - a justly deserved penalty
penalty - a payment required for not fulfilling a contract
2.requital - an act of requiting; returning in kind
getting even, paying back, return - a reciprocal group action; "in return we gave them as good as we got"
Translations
requital [rɪˈkwaɪtl] N (frm) (= repayment) → compensación f; (= revenge) → desquite m
requital
n (= repayment)Vergeltung f; (= revenge also)Rache f


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The Fox, unable even to taste it, met with a fitting requital, after the fashion of her own hospitality.
"I know not Lethe nor Nepenthe," remarked he; "but I have learned many new secrets in the wilderness, and here is one of them -- a recipe that an Indian taught me, in requital of some lessons of my own, that were as old as Paracelsus.
He read Phoebe as he would a sweet and simple story; he listened to her as if she were a verse of household poetry, which God, in requital of his bleak and dismal lot, had permitted some angel, that most pitied him, to warble through the house.
 
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