recompense

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

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2026

Here Mr. Stoppard managed to impart a few slivers of his deep knowledge of literary history while exploring the universal theme of a love that cannot find expression or recompense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

"That settlement for Zach allowed him the opportunity to have some kind of recompense but more importantly, to be able to make some memories," said Anna-Louise.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025

What is offered to another person without reservation can also be taken without recompense.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2024

Concealed within relativism there thus lies a dream of omnipotence, a fantasy recompense, perhaps, for the impotence and irrelevance of academic life.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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

You will not be sorry to see that while you warriors are drawing the sword to defend the king, I am animating the pacific arts to ornament the recompenses worthy of you.

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre

And the one conquering power is patient gentleness, which recompenses all evil with good, and is the sole means of transforming and thus overcoming it.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander

"Currently there isn't any effective way for creators to be recompensed when their work is downloaded and stored by audiences," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2021

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

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018

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

It is right that the players should be financially well recompensed for what they do.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 16, 2013

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

Who keeps his reputation still, For recompensing good with ill With more than pandemonium's skill?

From Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama by Various

Constantine; which splendid work ... of the shining heaven an inhabitant and citizen him show O Immaculate One; friendliness recompensing ... the temple ... the gift.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

Two hours, spent in this way, go far towards recompensing one for any labor and sacrifice.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various