1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 188/2 Richard Weltden..hath servyd us..xviii yere and more..withoute any rewarde for his long service, whom we have in recompensyng therof made Squier.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hosea ix. 7 The tyme of visitacion is come, the dayes of recompencinge are at honde.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 210 They..that go about to appease God with their owne recompencinges.

1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne f. 71 His reward for his paynes, if we respect mans recompencing, was [etc.].

a1634 J. Forbes Certaine Rec. in Apol. Narration Kirk of Scotl. (1846) 545 The Earle of Dumbar, both to disburden himself and [for] recompencing of the chanceler did [etc.].

1842 Ladies' Repository Apr. 125/1 If you are under obligation to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one until it be in your power to remunerate all.

1911 Science Dec. 739/2 We are coming to realize that good farming is no longer a robbing, but a recompensing of the soil.

2002 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 22 Apr. 9 If we don't get it, [sc. haemophilia treatment] then we want recompensing.

1578 T. Rogers tr. P. Cæsar Gen. Disc. Damnable Sect Vsurers vi. f. 20 Generally taken, it signifieth profit, or as it were a certaine price, and is called a recompensyng Vsurie [L. vsura recompensatoria].

1586 S. Bredwell Detection E. Glouers Hereticall Confection ii. 34 Wee haue a recompencing comfort and ioy in the presence of our God, euen in the mids of their enduring.

1667 N. Billingsley Treasury Divine Raptures 227 This Leather-dresser labours har'd Spurr'd on by recompencing gaines.

1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe ii. 22 A kind of recompensing ease.

1708 H. Dodwell Script. Acct. Eternal Rewards or Punishments 75 A Stage, in a short and inconsiderable Journey to those recompensing Entertainments which they propose to themselves as the Ends of their Hopes.

1786 S. J. Pratt Triumph of Benevolence 17 That voice from Heav'n alone can speak thy worth, A recompensing God will give the rest.

1814 F. Burney Wanderer III. v. xlviii. 178 If the needy helper require regular protection, the recompensing employer must claim regular service.

1883 Harper's Mag. June 19/1 Now the custom is limited solely to the giving the almanacs, minus the recompensing ‘cakes and ale’.

1945 Times 11 Oct. 6/3 In place of the twittering of swallow-birds there has, in this recompensing spell of finer weather, been the twittering of skylarks overhead.

1997 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 11 Sept. a10 It was an interim position only, with very little recompensing remuneration.