requite
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I think that’s every girl’s dream, that this punk who doesn’t really like us and doesn’t really requite our love, that he’s going to change all the sudden.
From Time ● Jan. 28, 2013
Therefore, in "the world as it is," you must requite evil with lesser evil.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2011
Did Mr. Anderson requite Ms. McKinney’s love, as she insists?
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2011
Preece, for whom he left his first wife, did not requite his passion.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2010
The powers of darkness would requite it, too, my mother’s parting curse would call hell’s furies to punish me, along with the scorn of men.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
In his gentle ethics the evil men do him he requites with goodness.
From The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London
That God repents his former Slights, And Fortune thus your Faith requites.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers
"One that hardly requites me for my patience in hearing it out."
From The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery by Marjorie Douie
One kiss for all others requites me, Although it is never to be, And sweetens my dreams and invites me: 'Tis the kiss that she dare not give me.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
See, ill they did, and ill requites them now.
From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
The experimental indie track “Only in My Dreams” and the bilingual, requited love anthem “Cariño” cemented their reputation as up-and-comers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
His love for the revolution was not always requited.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022
But there's a parallel thread of romance... a story of unrequited love that slowly became very requited indeed.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2022
In high school, when I experienced crushes on my male classmates, I believed that the only way those feelings could be requited was if I altered my body.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2022
I’m sure I said it would be O.K., although all I remember as I ran down the hill was thinking: Oh, I’m in love, I’m in love, and I think it’s requited!
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
Not requiting any encouragement to get out of his seat was Fernandez's fitness coach, who would leap and shout, pointing fingers or waving clenched fists.
From Fox News ● Sep. 7, 2021
And yet, among the human lovers, she is perhaps the most active, from when she betrays her friend to score points with Demetrius, her formerly requiting unrequited crush.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2020
The beloved proletariat, so requiting during hard times, had, at first opportunity, run off with capitalism's traveling salesman.
From Time Magazine Archive
He put up his double eyeglass, and speedily recognized the Mr. Barnard whom Dunn mentioned as so unworthily requiting all he had done for him.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
Just now Telemachus has spoken an impressive warning: "I shall invoke the ever-living Gods, that Zeus may grant deeds requiting yours."
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
Vocabulary lists containing requite
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Beowulf
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