requite

The act doesn’t requite that he sign the letter.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2019

I think that’s every girl’s dream, that this punk who doesn’t really like us and doesn’t really requite our love, that he’s going to change all the sudden.

From Time ● Jan. 28, 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

Replied Odysseus: “The young men, yes. And may the gods requite those insolent puppies for the game they play in a home not their own. They have no decency.”

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

O Brakenbury, I have done those things,       Which now bear evidence against my soul,       For Edward's sake; and see how he requites me!

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

Witness the lands which 'flow'd with milk and honey,' Held out unto the hungry Israelites; To this we have added since, the love of money, The only sort of pleasure which requites.

From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron

In other words, one is devoted to a friend when one knows him well, is true as steel to him, and basks in the sunshine of a love that requites that fidelity.

From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by John H. (John Henry) Stapleton

See, ill they did, and ill requites them now.

From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead

And so to be even with Tisaphernes, he requites his perjury by a fair stratagem.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

But there's a parallel thread of romance... a story of unrequited love that slowly became very requited indeed.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 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

For good measure, the book is a love story, a requited one between fan and muse, delivering a hero from Texas with architecturally stupendous hair: Lyle Lovett.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2020

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

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

But Orlick had determined to double-cross Burton and circumvent his plan, if Belle-Ann manifested any substantial symptom of requiting his suit for her hand or yielded to his persuasions.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald

They would rather not keep a large eater: and I certainly think they are right to decline requiting a bad turn with a signal favour.”

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various