requite
Example Sentences
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It would requite a lobotomy in order to speak as they do. paulejb Not difficult at all, Hollywood.
From Time • Jul. 24, 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
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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