requite

The act doesn’t requite that he sign the letter.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2019

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

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

Since it pleases me naught, I pray to God to grant me death, and—so truly as I have loved him who requites me thus—to have mercy on my soul.

From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France

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

She is beloved by the king's son, the Duke of Richmond, but she requites not his passion, for her heart is fixed on the youthful Earl of Surrey.

From Windsor Castle by William Harrison Ainsworth

It's the only thing I 've yet met that requites me for coming!

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

Fortune requites my Sufferings With too large a share of Happiness.

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

The experimental indie track “Only in My Dreams” and the bilingual, requited love anthem “Cariño” cemented their reputation as up-and-comers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024

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

In high school, when I experienced crushes on my male classmates, I believed that the only way those feelings could be requited was if I altered my body.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2022

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

He added that though he had not at present the power of requiting his generosity as he could wish, he trusted 'to repay him at some future day with good works.'

From The True Story Book by Andrew Lang

Cynthia, who had a wonderful itch of honesty, was mightily put out, and was all for going back and for requiting the landlord at any cost.

From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith