requital

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The register of the rudeness of the strong is also full, and destined for full requital.

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

The idea came from the Crito, where Socrates compels Crito to own that we must do evil to no one—not even by way of requital.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)

He thought Baynell's course was small-minded, unjustifiable, and an ungrateful requital of hospitality, such as only important interests might warrant.

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles

For all the wrong of slavery requital must be made, submissively, ungrudgingly, repentantly.

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