recompense

And without legal recompense, the only check to this power appears to be other armed men.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2026

Grandparents have demanded money as recompense for having spent years caring for a grandson taken in battle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

"That settlement for Zach allowed him the opportunity to have some kind of recompense but more importantly, to be able to make some memories," said Anna-Louise.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025

If he feels like the scales aren’t balanced between action and recompense ...

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2024

For both Joe and Roger, making it into the shell barges was sweet recompense for days that had been, ever since school began, brutally long and demanding.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

These works are among the great recompenses that experience offers us.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2014

“The Case for Reparations” is deeply focused on economic injuries and recompenses.

From Washington Post

Fidelity, and skill, and pure morals, should be sought out, and enticed, by generous recompenses, into our domestic service.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown

Indeed it is a thankful form, and recompenses that soul, which gives it, with carrying that soul so many feet higher towards heaven.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne

These little incidental recompenses of the most perfect domestic harmony were realized in everything we undertook.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various

Kennedy wasn’t extorted off the bench or recompensed for his vacancy.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018

If people knew a radio station, a platform or a device was using a fair system, and that artists were being recompensed for their work directly, they’d go for it over another that didn’t.”

From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2015

One need not be a political ideologue, he says, to believe that people have quantifiable value and deserve to be recompensed for it.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2013

The ECJ says long-delayed passengers should be recompensed as generously as those whose flights were cancelled.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2010

When the negotiations were concluded, the gods and Skadi had agreed that she would be recompensed for her father’s death in three ways.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

Still, Treyzon said that does not deter his suit from examining the platform’s value in recompensing class-action members.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2019

The IRS seized Nelson’s belongings in 1991 to start recompensing the approximate $32m he owed in taxes at the time.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2015

Constantine; which splendid work ... of the shining heaven an inhabitant and citizen him show O Immaculate One; friendliness recompensing ... the temple ... the gift.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen

But such privileges should not be continued longer than is necessary for the purpose of reasonably recompensing the adventurers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various

Louis XIV., desirous of duly recompensing the services of the royal favourite, conferred upon her by letters-patent dated January, 1684, the French title of Duchess d’Aubigny.

From Political Women, Vol. 2 by Sutherland Menzies