requital

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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

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 Leslie, Eliza

Therefore Kant's theory of punishment as mere requital for requital's sake is a completely groundless and perverse view.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

What a miserable requital for the cruel neglect and iron injustice, which repaid the years of suffering and self-sacrifice, by which it was earned!

From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Norman, B. M.

He registered his own opinion that all the sorrows of the war were in requital for that sin.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.