recompense

And without legal recompense, the only check to this power appears to be other armed men.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2026

Grandparents have demanded money as recompense for having spent years caring for a grandson taken in battle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

Having a visible tan in Victorian times was a clear sign you were poor working class and probably spent most of your time hawking barrels of hay for very little recompense.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

“But the settlement in his favor,” Mr. Lincenberg added, “represents a measure of recompense for the wrongs done to him by the wrongful prosecution.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

It was probably just peaceful despair and relief at final and complete abnegation, now that Judith was about to immolate the frustration’s vicarious recompense into the living fairy tale.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

These works are among the great recompenses that experience offers us.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2014

“The Case for Reparations” is deeply focused on economic injuries and recompenses.

From Washington Post

"Antonio—I have long known that in his recompenses Alphonso is immoderate; 'tis thine To prove to-day what all who serve the prince Have learn'd, or will."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

BAMBABEF: Take care; in those towns you will find philosophers who will deny you both your pains and your recompenses.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

The Romans had patricians, knights, citizens, and slaves:—for each class different dresses and different manners—honorary recompenses for every species of merit—mural crowns—civic crowns—ovations—triumphs—titles.

From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

Kennedy wasn’t extorted off the bench or recompensed for his vacancy.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018

"And it came cheap. Unlike hotels where the proprietors had to be recompensed for their time, the Pavilion was a civic building without any clear purpose."

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2014

One need not be a political ideologue, he says, to believe that people have quantifiable value and deserve to be recompensed for it.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2013

There is no suggestion that she has been spiritually recompensed.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2010

When the negotiations were concluded, the gods and Skadi had agreed that she would be recompensed for her father’s death in three ways.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

Still, Treyzon said that does not deter his suit from examining the platform’s value in recompensing class-action members.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2019

The IRS seized Nelson’s belongings in 1991 to start recompensing the approximate $32m he owed in taxes at the time.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2015

Her delicacy hindered her from recompensing me in words for what I had uttered in her presence; but she used her ingenuity to find a way to make me understand that she approved of me.

From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

His good nature and justice did farther appear in his manner of recompensing his domestics, and by his liberality to the poor.

From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Felton, Samuel

How he longed now for the atoning and recompensing moment of the first meeting again, after the next morning!

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich