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
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 Charles James Lever
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 B. M. Norman
For all the wrong of slavery requital must be made, submissively, ungrudgingly, repentantly.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
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 Arthur Schopenhauer
