requite
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But still I crane my neck and track them at every opportunity, hoping I suppose to requite their deep indifference for me with my high regard for them.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2013
It would requite a lobotomy in order to speak as they do. paulejb Not difficult at all, Hollywood.
From Time ● Jul. 24, 2013
Therefore, in "the world as it is," you must requite evil with lesser evil.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2011
Did Mr. Anderson requite Ms. McKinney’s love, as she insists?
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2011
The powers of darkness would requite it, too, my mother’s parting curse would call hell’s furies to punish me, along with the scorn of men.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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It is true that the popular belief and popular legends which are preserved in post-Biblical writings as well, insisted on a justice which requites “measure for measure.”
From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann
Since it pleases me naught, I pray to God to grant me death, and—so truly as I have loved him who requites me thus—to have mercy on my soul.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by France, Marie de
"One that hardly requites me for my patience in hearing it out."
From The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery by Douie, Marjorie
One kiss for all others requites me, Although it is never to be, And sweetens my dreams and invites me: 'Tis the kiss that she dare not give me.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
Ah, no,—that were a vain pretence, Justice eternal strict requites.
From Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Dutt, Toru
But there's a parallel thread of romance... a story of unrequited love that slowly became very requited indeed.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2022
In high school, when I experienced crushes on my male classmates, I believed that the only way those feelings could be requited was if I altered my body.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2022
But there’s something more that’s driving interest in Bennifer: the storybook nature of long-lost love requited.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021
And affirming Joni’s requited love with jazz, Herbie Hancock would go on to record “River” and more on the Grammy-winning tribute “River: The Joni Letters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2021
I’m sure I said it would be O.K., although all I remember as I ran down the hill was thinking: Oh, I’m in love, I’m in love, and I think it’s requited!
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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Not requiting any encouragement to get out of his seat was Fernandez's fitness coach, who would leap and shout, pointing fingers or waving clenched fists.
From Fox News ● Sep. 7, 2021
And yet, among the human lovers, she is perhaps the most active, from when she betrays her friend to score points with Demetrius, her formerly requiting unrequited crush.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2020
The beloved proletariat, so requiting during hard times, had, at first opportunity, run off with capitalism's traveling salesman.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We have recognised temporal justice, which has its seat in the state, as requiting and punishing, and have seen that this only becomes justice through a reference to the future.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
Just now Telemachus has spoken an impressive warning: "I shall invoke the ever-living Gods, that Zeus may grant deeds requiting yours."
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
Vocabulary lists containing requite
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Beowulf
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