requital
Example Sentences
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This nonsense gradually infected everything and the consequence was an underestimate which subsequently bought the bitterest requital.
From Time Magazine Archive
This redemption and requital shall be wrought by God.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
When you are visiting another city, and receiving civilities from some of its inhabitants, it is an ill requital for their attentions to disparage their place, and glorify your own.
From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie
And the deeds which God will thus punish deserve, on the theory of punishment as prevention, no requital.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
He was a watchful assistant of those who contributed to the public service without expecting or receiving requital.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
