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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
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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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