requite
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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
Preece, for whom he left his first wife, did not requite his passion.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2010
The powers of darkness would requite it, too, my mother’s parting curse would call hell’s furies to punish me, along with the scorn of men.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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.
What thrift requites good service, I'll show you well to-day.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
See, ill they did, and ill requites them now.
From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
Witness the lands which 'flow'd with milk and honey,' Held out unto the hungry Israelites; To this we have added since, the love of money, The only sort of pleasure which requites.
From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
His honour loves his lady too well to make her suffer much: little as she requites his love!——
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Richardson, Samuel
His love for the revolution was not always requited.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022
But there's a parallel thread of romance... a story of unrequited love that slowly became very requited indeed.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2022
Landon Donovan will get his first chance to see if his new passion will be requited when he coaches the San Diego Loyal of the second-tier USL Championship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
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
I’m sure I said it would be O.K., although all I remember as I ran down the hill was thinking: Oh, I’m in love, I’m in love, and I think it’s requited!
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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
Romans on finding out his absence took courage and turned their attention to requiting those who had invited him.
My own acceptance is not that they are imposing upon us: that they are requiting us.
From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Beowulf
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