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requite

[ri-kwahyt] / rɪˈkwaɪt /


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But still I crane my neck and track them at every opportunity, hoping I suppose to requite their deep indifference for me with my high regard for them.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2013

I think that’s every girl’s dream, that this punk who doesn’t really like us and doesn’t really requite our love, that he’s going to change all the sudden.

From Time ● Jan. 28, 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

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

What thrift requites good service, I'll show you well to-day.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

One kiss for all others requites me,   Although it is never to be, And sweetens my dreams and invites me:   'Tis the kiss that she dare not give me.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

He requites their toil handsomely, always; if his success be unusual, they share the benefit.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

That God repents his former Slights,       And Fortune thus your Faith requites.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers

Cowper, even more than most writers, deserves and requites consideration under the double aspect of matter and form.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury

Luckily for him, in Colwin’s world, the brief torture of falling in love is just prelude to the lifelong joy of finding your love requited.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023

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

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.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio

A man belongs, as a good individual, to the "good" of a community, who have a feeling in common, because all the individuals are allied with one another through the requiting sentiment.

From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche




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