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  • verb Common misspelling of recompensing.

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Examples

  • Yet such was the vertue of this magnificent King, expressed in so highly recompencing the noble

    The Decameron 2004

  • Englands Daughter, and made him her Husband in mariage, recompencing all his Uncles losses, and seating them againe in good estate.

    The Decameron 2004

  • In regard whereof, by a notable experiment, the King gave him a manifest testimony, that it was not through any defect in him, but onely occasioned by the Knights ill fortune; most bountifully recompencing him afterward.

    The Decameron 2004

  • And looke how many soever hee dealt withall, he would be urged and required thereto, offering them his paines and travaile for nothing, but to bee requited otherwise then by money; which prooved to bee his much larger recompencing, and returned to him the farre greater benefit.

    The Decameron 2004

  • At which my former enemies did wonder; and at this time must entreat me to do them a friendship, which to both Spaniards and Portingals have I doen: recompencing them good for euill.

    Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877

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