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

The masses have a dim idea that every evil deed meets with requital and express it in the proverb that "Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small."

From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon

And the deeds which God will thus punish deserve, on the theory of punishment as prevention, no requital.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

Nor is revenge, even in its subordinate position, the simple blood-for-blood requital that it is in Kyd.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.

The idea came from the Crito, where Socrates compels Crito to own that we must do evil to no one—not even by way of requital.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)