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单词 requital
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requitaln.

Brit. /rᵻˈkwʌɪtl/, U.S. /rəˈkwaɪdl/, /riˈkwaɪdl/
Forms: see requite v. and -al suffix1; also 1600s requiteall.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: requite v., -al suffix1.
Etymology: < requite v. + -al suffix1. Compare slightly later requitement n., requiting n.
1.
a. A repayment, reward, return.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > [noun] > a reward
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meedeOE
meedseOE
leanOE
gratitude1535
requital1545
requite1862
bounty1868
1545 T. Elyot Preseruatiue agaynste Deth Pref. sig. A.ii The lyttell boke whyche I sent to you at the begynnynge of lent last passed, a smal requitall of your gentyll benefites, I haue caused nowe to be printed.
a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 360 The best requital that we can make for our good cheer.
1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript Epigr. xvi. sig. X8 Your loue doth well deserue to haue Better requitals then are in my power.
1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God 95 All the Duties we can pay our Maker, are lesse properly Requitals than Restitutions.
1690 in J. G. Dunlop Dunlop Papers (1953) III. 68 And if wee doe not continue hes frind it will be sad and a bad requetall.
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. ix. 285 He fear'd he should have but a poor requital from the king.
1797 G. Baker tr. Livy Hist. Rome I. i. 84 Tarquinius..put them in mind of his father's kindness to them, and demanded a requital of it.
1823 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (new ed.) I. ii. 24 I will not make so cruel a requital for his honesty, as to put his name in print.
1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. ix. 559 It might seem to be an ungrateful requital of the unquestioned services of the Company.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxv. 9 Ah! no more to address thee, or hear thy kindly requital!
1944 Folk-lore 55 160 Besides the unexpected requitals for good, bad, or indifferent receptions, we have two extra incidents.
1996 L. E. Goodman God of Abraham vi. 178 Saadiah does not deduce infinite requitals from the disproportion of earned to unearned deserts.
b. Return or recompense for a service, kindness, etc.; recompense or reward for effort, action, or exertion on one's behalf; reciprocation of a feeling.In quot. 1639: ability to return a courtesy.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > [noun] > requital or repayment
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repayment1561
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requit1786
repayal1829
the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > [noun]
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reward?1387
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1556 J. Ponet Shorte Treat. Politike Power sig. Iiiij v Bending his disposicion to make thankefull requital of parte of his receaued benefites.
1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 62 To minister superabundant matter of sufficient requitall.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 16 First begin a freendshippe, for he wyl make fullye requital.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. i. 109 So unwelcome are courtesies to them when above their requitall.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xi. 48 To receive benefits..as long as there is hope of requital, disposeth to love.
1708 T. Marsden Let. in J. Brockbank Diary & Let. Bk. (1930) 361 All ye requitall I shall make for ye Severall gifts is to tell You ye You have been and are very dear to me.
1752 F. Gentleman Sejanus ii. i. 13 But that fairest Livia, bears a Part In the requital of thy Faith and Care, I should despair of having Means or Pow'r, To make thy Friendship ample Recompence.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 175 Whose bold perseverance at length reap'd requital.
1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance vii. 61 Priscilla found but scanty requital for her love.
a1871 G. Grote Fragm. Ethical Subj. (1876) i. 11 Such and such behaviour [is] to be rendered on his part, such and such sentiments to be manifested as requital on theirs.
1938 M. A. Power Poets at Prayer i. v. 63 To love God for His beauty, without hope of requital,..is man's prerogative.
2002 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 15 Dec. (Sunday Review) 1 One of the oldest stories around: the requital of long-cherished love.
2.
a. An act of retaliation or vengeance.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun]
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revanche1615
vindict1639
payback1973
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 1353 A dishonor wherwith this realme shall be blotted, vntyll God shall geue power to redubbe it with some like requitall to the French.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 38 Doubting thee Troians blooddye reuengment, And also fearing thee Greekish fyrie requital [L. poenam].
1713 Examiner No. 7 They need no other Requital than what that Party they espouse will inflict on them.
1777 J. Williams Rise, Progress, & Present State Northern Governments II. iv. i. 36 They were just requitals for crimes actually committed.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘Tint for tant’, a requital, similar to tit for tat.
1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 430/1 Even when they ask for bread they hint at requitals in lead.
1912 Jewish Q. Rev. 2 419 A great body of Jews, for fear of Chaldean requitals in consequence of the murder of Gedeliah, left Palestine for Egypt.
2005 L. Lockett in K. O'Brien O'Keeffe & A. Orchard Lat. Learning & Eng. Lore I. 377 The memory of past hostilities and the anticipation of future requitals.
b. Retribution or reparation for an injury, injustice, etc.; retaliation, revenge.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > retaliation or retribution
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requitement1548
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law of retalion1607
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reddition1656
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poetical justice1796
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1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxxii. 68 If..we should take the quarell of sermons in hand and reuenge their cause by requitall.
a1602 W. Perkins Cases of Consc. (1619) 200 Men are content to lay aside all hatred and requitall of euill.
1661 Princess Cloria iv. 488 He hath by a most remarkable act of requital put down that power, which first took upon it so strange an authority over their King and Nobility.
1746 Hist. Man II. lxxx. 142 He was much afraid that the president would remember the differences that had formerly been between them, and stick hard upon him by way of requital.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xxi. 223 My first act of requital you well remember: this is my last.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 203 Words which on iron deeds did sue for deadly requital.
1902 Atlantic Reporter 50 846/2 The individual can get requital for the injury done him..through a civil suit.
1992 J. M. Kelly Short Hist. Western Legal Theory vi. 238 Punishment ought not to be inflicted by the victim of crime by way of personal requital.
1993 V. Milan From Depths xiv. 177 Do you not hear the planet itself crying out for requital?
3. Compensation; an instance of this. With for. rare.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > compensation
compensation1387
countervailment1594
supererogating1617
equation1666
compensating1668
upmaking1669
requital1885
weightage1906
1885 Manch. Weekly Times 7 Feb. 5/5 The common sense which, in requital for the want of more showy qualities, we may claim as the attribute of Englishmen.
1928 Times 21 July 13/3 There..remains the question of compensation... It will be a difficult matter to make an ample requital for such a large slice of a man's life.

Phrases

in (also †for) requital (of, for).
a. In recompense (for), in return (for).
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1573 G. Gascoigne Disc. Aduentures Master F. I. in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 228 I thinke my selfe so much bound vnto you for diuers respects, as if abilitie doe not fayle mee, you shall fynde mee myndfull in requitall of the same.
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 43 Ready for requitall of such gratious countenaunce to vnsheath my sworde.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. i. 139 In requital whereof, henceforth, carry your letters your selfe. View more context for this quotation
1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 59 Giving such constructions to Gods Truth, as will for requital, give largest allowance to their practices.
1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. v. 22 In requital of all his former Kindnesses, they basely deserted him.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 132 In Requital for his Kindness,..I took the best Occasion I could, to put him upon telling us the Story of old Gantlett.
1777 S. Johnson Let. 26 June (1992) III. 33 In requital of those well-intended offices which you are pleased so emphatically to acknowledge.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. v. 172 Requesting a sum of money..and offering in requital to withdraw from the province.
1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 24 There is not a horse willing to work but can get food and shelter in requital.
1886 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. VI. dlv. 46 I have no ready money, but take this from me in requital of thy kindness and good offices.
1905 Times 23 Jan. 6/3 The United States, in requital of these friendly services, may accept Samana Bay as a coaling station.
1985 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 48 462 The reference might be to a ruling which will be better for men in terms of the reward they might reasonably expect in the Hereafter, in requital of their performing a more arduous obligation.
b. In revenge (for), by way of retaliation (for).
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1588 A. Munday tr. Palmerin D'Oliua i. viii. f.19v What satisfaction maie your Florendos liue to make, in requitall of this iniurie?
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 6 Remember how they mangle our Brittish names abroad; what trespasse were it, if wee in requitall should as much neglect theirs?
1709 Scrinia Reclusa ii. 123 Finding he had rivetted himself in the King's Favour, he watch'd all Opportunities to put the Cardinal out of it, in Requital of the Injury he design'd him, in being a Bar to his Preferment.
1796 Freemason's Mag. Jan. 26 It was determined that eight of them should be hanged, in requital for a like sentence that had been made by Albert, the Archduke, upon some Hollanders.
1830 W. Scott Ivanhoe in Waverley Novels XVII. 170 In requital,..he returned the box on the ear with such interest as to kill his antagonist on the spot.
1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech iii. 144 In requital it may be for many injuries.
1885 Manch. Examiner 30 Mar. 5/1 In requital of that shameful act of perfidy.
1924 H. W. Smyth Aeschylean Trag. i. 23 The Daughters of the Sun bewail the fate of their brother,..who for one day drove the chariot of his sire and in requital for his audacity was blasted by the thunderbolt.
2002 A. H. Rasmussen in K. Ascani et al. Anc. Hist. Matters 160/1 It seemed that his death was an act of Divine Providence in requital for his offences against the goddess and her priest.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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