recompense

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They promised the repeal of all acts against the Roman Catholic Religion in Ireland, and admission of Roman Catholics to a proportion of all places of public trust; and the recompense was to be an army of 10,000 Irish for his Majesty's assistance in England.

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  1. transitive verb To award compensation to: recompensed the victims of the accident.
  2. transitive verb To award compensation for; make a return for: recompensed their injuries.
  3. noun Amends made, as for damage or loss.
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  • It has been all these four years in my sitting-room; and I have fed it and tried to be its friend in every way, but all my recompense is a blank stare. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • Harm that can have no recompense, there is no making up for what has been taken. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • In partial recompense, the government extends them special benefits, from free parking and tax breaks to priority in medical treatment.
  • The public is shouting for blood and for recompense, and politicians looking to distance themselves from the morass are jumping on the bandwagon. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • With pretended reluctance he accepted his accommodation as a recompense, and rode away. —  Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
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  1. Middle English recompensen, from Old French recompenser, from Late Latin recompēnsāre : Latin re-, re- + Latin compēnsāre, to compensate; see compensate.

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  1. Formerly also recompence; from Middle English recompensen, from Old French recompenser, French récompenser =Provencal Spanish Portuguese recompensar =Italian ricompensare, from Middle Latin recompensare, reward, remunerate, from Latin re-, again, + compensare, compensate: see compensate.
  2. Formerly also recompence; from Old French recompense, French récompense =Spanish Portuguese recompensa =Italian ricompensa, feminine, ricompenso, masculine, from Middle Latin recompensa, recompense; from the verb.
 

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/ˈrɛkəmpɛns/
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