requite

The act doesn’t requite that he sign the letter.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2019

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

Replied Odysseus: “The young men, yes. And may the gods requite those insolent puppies for the game they play in a home not their own. They have no decency.”

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Sabitri replied, "O virtuous king, we are apt to repose more confidence in the righteous than in ourselves; their kindness amply requites our love and regard."

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder

Fortune requites my Sufferings With too large a share of Happiness.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague

It's the only thing I 've yet met that requites me for coming!

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

And so to be even with Tisaphernes, he requites his perjury by a fair stratagem.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

After the inscription, "John Durer, formerly Minister to his Majesty the Emperor of Germany," the old man had written— "Heaven requites ingratitude."

From The Children's Portion by Shoppell, Robert W.

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

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

But there’s something more that’s driving interest in Bennifer: the storybook nature of long-lost love requited.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021

For months they’d been coming here, four or five nights a week as the Voice requited.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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

There were some amongst them that cherished vermin, which were not ungrateful in requiting their caresses.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William

He was grateful for favors, though somewhat capricious in his modes of requiting them.

From Darius the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob