Recompense
noun
Something given as a reward, payment, or punishment for something.
He demanded adequate recompense for his work.
Often appears as...
- adequate recompense
- monetary recompense
verb
To give someone something as a reward or payment for something.
The company recompensed her for the overtime hours she worked.
Often appears as...
- recompense someone for something
- generously recompense
Usage tips
Formal
noun
In the Christian religion, the reward or punishment that a person receives after death for the good or evil things they have done during their life.
He believes in a just God who will give every man his recompense.
Often appears as...
- righteous recompense
- divine recompense
noun
Something given as a reward, payment, or punishment for something.
He demanded adequate recompense for his work.
Often appears as...
- adequate recompense
- monetary recompense
verb
To give someone something as a reward or payment for something.
The company recompensed her for the overtime hours she worked.
Often appears as...
- recompense someone for something
- generously recompense
Usage tips
Formal
noun
In the Christian religion, the reward or punishment that a person receives after death for the good or evil things they have done during their life.
He believes in a just God who will give every man his recompense.
Often appears as...
- righteous recompense
- divine recompense
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Reward or Punishment
Used in contexts where actions have direct consequences, positive or negative.
After the trial, he received his recompense: a hefty fine.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Monetary
Recompense doesn't always involve money, it can be any form of compensation.
They gave him a medal as recompense for his bravery.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Context
Often used in formal situations like legal, professional, or literary contexts.
The contract guarantees recompense for any damages incurred.
Pro Tip 1/3Reward or Punishment
Used in contexts where actions have direct consequences, positive or negative.
After the trial, he received his recompense: a hefty fine.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Monetary
Recompense doesn't always involve money, it can be any form of compensation.
They gave him a medal as recompense for his bravery.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Context
Often used in formal situations like legal, professional, or literary contexts.
The contract guarantees recompense for any damages incurred.
Pro Tip 1/3Reward or Punishment
Used in contexts where actions have direct consequences, positive or negative.
After the trial, he received his recompense: a hefty fine.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Monetary
Recompense doesn't always involve money, it can be any form of compensation.
They gave him a medal as recompense for his bravery.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Context
Often used in formal situations like legal, professional, or literary contexts.
The contract guarantees recompense for any damages incurred.
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God's Thieves PIPE Saints &...
is blessing us he keeps us from starving hah look we're not the only people who take things unless you think these savages have learned at a forge iron we could offer them full recompense we have beads and tract of a ship
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Monkeys Wading Through...
to find a dry seat a juicy snail is ample recompense for
Video examples
God's Thieves PIPE Saints &...
is blessing us he keeps us from starving hah look we're not the only people who take things unless you think these savages have learned at a forge iron we could offer them full recompense we have beads and tract of a ship
Video examples
Monkeys Wading Through...
to find a dry seat a juicy snail is ample recompense for
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Quote examples
Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.
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Arthur Smith
English Comedian
When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me.
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Leonard Cohen
Canadian Singer
I never had huge amounts of money when I was young. I had huge amounts of fame, and I always had the sense of labor and recompense. I always said I don't want to work for pay, but I want to get paid for my song.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Germaine Greer
Australian Activist
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
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Khalil Gibran
Lebanese Poet
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
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William Hazlitt
English Critic
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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Joseph Epstein
American Writer
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Statesman
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish Scientist
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
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Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.
Quote examples
Arthur Smith
English Comedian
When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me.
Quote examples
Leonard Cohen
Canadian Singer
I never had huge amounts of money when I was young. I had huge amounts of fame, and I always had the sense of labor and recompense. I always said I don't want to work for pay, but I want to get paid for my song.
Quote examples
Samuel Johnson
English Writer
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Germaine Greer
Australian Activist
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
Quote examples
Khalil Gibran
Lebanese Poet
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
Quote examples
William Hazlitt
English Critic
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
Quote examples
Joseph Epstein
American Writer
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Quote examples
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Statesman
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Quote examples
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish Scientist
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
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