Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which recompenses.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who recompenses.

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  • noun One who recompenses.

Etymologies

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recompense +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Si la grace fait tout en elles, quelle raison aurait-il de les recompenser?

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • Que bien que nos oeuvres ne puissent pas meriter, notre Seigneur ne laissera pas de les recompenser de la Vie Eternelle, par une continuation misericordieuse de sa grace, et en vertu de la constance immuable des promesses qu'il nous en fait.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Seigneur ne laissera pas de les recompenser de la Vie Eternelle, par une continuation misericordieuse de sa grace, et en vertu de la constance immuable des promesses qu'il nous en fait.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Si la grace fait tout en elles, quelle raison aurait-il de les recompenser?

    The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

  • Si la grace fait tout en elles, quelle raison aurait-il de les recompenser?

    The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

  • Her pupils she managed with such indulgence and address, taking always on herself the office of recompenser and eulogist, and abandoning to her subalterns every invidious task of blame and punishment, that they all regarded her with deference, if not with affection; her teachers did not love her, but they submitted because they were her inferiors in everything; the various masters who attended her school were each and all in some way or other under her influence; over one she had acquired power by her skilful management of his bad temper; over another by little attentions to his petty caprices; a third she had subdued by flattery; a fourth — a timid man — she kept in awe by a sort of austere decision of mien; me, she still watched, still tried by the most ingenious tests — she roved round me, baffled, yet persevering;

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

  • "Now God in heaven, good Rüdeger, thy recompenser be!

    National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

  • _Il s’est formé ici depuis peu +une Societé pour recompenser & encourager le Mérite, par report aux beaux Arts+.

    Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley (1712) and The British Academy (1712) Arthur Maynwaring 1707

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