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
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
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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In his gentle ethics the evil men do him he requites with goodness.
From The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London
Sabitri replied, "O virtuous king, we are apt to repose more confidence in the righteous than in ourselves; their kindness amply requites our love and regard."
From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Shib Chunder Bose
His hatred of Raleigh—which, as we shall see hereafter, Raleigh not only bears patiently, but requites with good deeds as long as he can— springs, by his own confession, simply from envy and disappointed vanity.
From Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Charles Kingsley
It's the only thing I 've yet met that requites me for coming!
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever
And since the Grand-duke has come back and brought This army of the North which thus requites His filial South, we leave him to be taught.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
They show us the way we try to escape an unsatisfying present through speculative fictions about how our suffering will eventually be redeemed through requited love or satisfying work or, failing those, God’s mercy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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
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
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
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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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He afterwards meets a cavalier, who reveals himself as the dead man whose debts had been paid, and who is desirous of requiting that favour.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Edwin Sidney Hartland
Carcassonne had never forgotten the obligation, was never weary of seeking opportunities of requiting it.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various
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