Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Requital.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Requital.
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- noun obsolete
requital
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Oh God, take away from us all sorrow, and receive therefore requitement in twofold measure!”
Through Russia 2003
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"Oh God, take away from us all sorrow, and receive therefore requitement in twofold measure!"
Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902
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Fierce, indeed, as are such outbreaks in many eastern lands, that day marked the beginning of dark deeds of requitement that have made all others as nothing in comparison to them.
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various 1880
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So he appointed them for a day on which they should assemble to witness his requitement and that which should betide him of torment, and shut himself up with his wife and two sons and abode thus private with them three days, during which they were veiled from the folk.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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