Antonyms for requite
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : ri-kwahyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈkwaɪt |
Definition of requite
Origin :- c.1400, "repay" (for good or ill), from re- "back" + Middle English quite "clear, pay up," earlier variant of quit (see quit). Related: Requited; requiting.
- verb compensate, give in return
- Have you grown sleek and fat and smug in my service that you should requite me thus?
- Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini
- Well then, do they requite your gifts of gold with gratitude?
- Extract from : « The Symposium » by Xenophon
- If they kill us, how can we requite them for our obligations?
- Extract from : « The Strollers » by Frederic S. Isham
- There's many a coinage costlier than ever the mint fashioned; he may requite me thus.
- Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever
- He had aroused her passion and no amount of long-distance love could requite it.
- Extract from : « The Perfectionists » by Arnold Castle
- It shall go hard but I will requite her kindness one time or other.
- Extract from : « Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote » by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- In return, I did what I could to requite her, and my good will was not overlooked.
- Extract from : « The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 » by Various
- Too great eagerness to requite an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
- Extract from : « Classic French Course in English » by William Cleaver Wilkinson
- Isabel had loved her then; and now, how was she about to requite her?
- Extract from : « April's Lady » by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
- I was praying for the happiness of your future years—praying that I might requite your love.
- Extract from : « Eugene Aram, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Synonyms for requite
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