requital

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This nonsense gradually infected everything and the consequence was an underestimate which subsequently bought the bitterest requital.

From Time Magazine Archive

He registered his own opinion that all the sorrows of the war were in requital for that sin.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

Her language to Lord George was even worse, for she told him that his "counsel was a very sorry requital for the generous hospitality her father had always extended to him."

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James

Ill?" asked he, "it is merely a requital.

From Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

And the deeds which God will thus punish deserve, on the theory of punishment as prevention, no requital.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.