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requite

[ri-kwahyt] / rɪˈkwaɪt /


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

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2019

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

I believe that he would be a very different boy if he were relieved from the misery he suffers at home and requites by mischievous pranks. 

From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Thou seest now, Edelwald, how France requites his service.

From The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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

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

Though in my Firmament thou wilt not shine Talk not, my Lord, of unrequited love,     Since love requites itself most royally.

From Last Poems by Laurence Hope

After the inscription, "John Durer, formerly Minister to his Majesty the Emperor of Germany," the old man had written— "Heaven requites ingratitude."

From The Children's Portion by Robert W. Shoppell

The experimental indie track “Only in My Dreams” and the bilingual, requited love anthem “Cariño” cemented their reputation as up-and-comers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024

Luckily for him, in Colwin’s world, the brief torture of falling in love is just prelude to the lifelong joy of finding your love requited.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023

His love for the revolution was not always requited.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022

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

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2022

For months they’d been coming here, four or five nights a week as the Voice requited.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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

He put up his double eyeglass, and speedily recognized the Mr. Barnard whom Dunn mentioned as so unworthily requiting all he had done for him.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever

Requī′tal, the act of requiting: payment in return: recompense: reward; Requite′, requital.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various




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