Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not recompensed, rewarded, or requited.

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  • adjective Not recompensed; unrewarded.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ recompensed

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Examples

  • When they're not ignored completely, they're expected to provide tireless but unrecompensed support for people who matter more than them, as babysitters, carers or shoulders to cry on.

    Another Year, same old witch-hunt David Cox 2010

  • But Spitzer could have engaged in perfectly legal sadomasochism (which might explain the reference to dangerous behavior), or had consensual, unrecompensed sex (apart from paid companionship) with his hirelings.

    Jeff Norman: How Blago and Spitzer are Connected 2009

  • We are here in a case where I may either live or die; but I would not willingly die an ungrateful man, or leave, so far as the Saints may place it in my power, either a friend or an enemy unrecompensed.

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • John Kerry, running for president in the immediate wake of Abu Ghraib — and perhaps remembering his own unrecompensed temerity in calling attention, as a young returning vet, to war crimes in Vietnam — hardly mentioned it.

    Frozen Scandal Danner, Mark 2008

  • In the physiocratic model, economic rent was derived from unrecompensed work done by Nature since in setting food prices, cultivators take in account their labor and expenses as well as the surplus value contributed by the fertility of the soil.

    Biophysical economics 2008

  • When victory had been fully secured, we withdrew to our own shores unrecompensed save in the consciousness of duty done. 3

    Calvin Coolidge: Inaugural Address 1989

  • When victory had been fully secured, we withdrew to our own shores unrecompensed save in the consciousness of duty done.

    United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches United States. Presidents.

  • When victory had been fully secured, we withdrew to our own shores unrecompensed save in the consciousness of duty done.

    US Presidential Inaugural Addresses Various

  • She meant that her sufferings would perhaps not go unrecompensed.

    Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House Anthony Hope 1898

  • "I knocked at every door in Old Cavendish Street, not unrecompensed for the present pain by the remembrances of the different characters of voice and countenance with which my question was answered in all gradations, from gentle and hospitable kindness to downright brutality."

    In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892

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