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

"Do ye in all truth follow the doctrine that bids you suffer without requital?" he demanded, even while feeling that his logic was impotent.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

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

He thought Baynell's course was small-minded, unjustifiable, and an ungrateful requital of hospitality, such as only important interests might warrant.

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles

Her language to Lord George was even worse, for she told him that his "counsel was a very sorry requital for the generous hospitality her father had always extended to him."

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James