requite

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

Replied Odysseus: “The young men, yes. And may the gods requite those insolent puppies for the game they play in a home not their own. They have no decency.”

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 Robert W. Shoppell

O Brakenbury, I have done those things,       Which now bear evidence against my soul,       For Edward's sake; and see how he requites me!

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

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 Samuel Richardson

And since the Grand-duke has come back and brought This army of the North which thus requites His filial South, we leave him to be taught.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Though in my Firmament thou wilt not shine Talk not, my Lord, of unrequited love,     Since love requites itself most royally.

From Last Poems by Laurence Hope

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

For good measure, the book is a love story, a requited one between fan and muse, delivering a hero from Texas with architecturally stupendous hair: Lyle Lovett.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2020

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

For it is their turn to visit me, and I would not be baulked of requiting them for their kindness to me here.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Gifts full many to these heaven send as largely requiting, Gifts Themis ever wont deal to the pious of yore.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis