单词 | requiting |
释义 | requitingn. A repayment, a reciprocation; the action of rewarding or paying back. ΚΠ 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 18 b Thankefulnesse is a requityng of loue, for loue. 1578 A. Golding tr. Seneca Conc. Benefyting (title page) The Dooing, Receyving, and Requyting of Good Turnes. 1658 T. Hall Pract. Comm. Third & Fourth Chapters Paul to Timothy 66 As our Parents, have nursed and nourished us, so we should do the like for them, if need require; this is called a requiting of their love. 1705 H. Newcome Transubstant. Discuss'd Introd. ix. p. xviii Let them learn to show Piety at Home in Maintaining their desolate Mothers or Grand-Mothers, which is a requiting of their Parents who had provided for them in their helpless Infancy. 1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I. (at cited word) A requiting, compensatio. 1833 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 28 Dec. 796 What has been..the just and wise principle of your whole life in the requiting of others for their labour performed for you? 1897 Friendly Compan. Feb. 37 What cruel requiting for his kindness to them. 1942 W. Stevens Coll. Poems (1954) 263 Free requiting of responsive fact. 1997 G. M. Kenyon & W. L. Randall Restorying our Lives iv. 67 Whether this goal be the solving of a mystery, the finding of a grail, the requiting of a love, or the winning of a war, its achievement is essentially what the story is ‘about’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1553 |
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