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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

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

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

And she received it in full measure; for the dear Lord requites some faithful hearts, blesses some lives that seem set apart for silent pain and solitary labor.

From Work: a Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

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

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

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

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

I believe that he would be a very different boy if he were relieved from the misery he suffers at home and requites by mischievous pranks. 

From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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

They show us the way we try to escape an unsatisfying present through speculative fictions about how our suffering will eventually be redeemed through requited love or satisfying work or, failing those, God’s mercy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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

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 months they’d been coming here, four or five nights a week as the Voice requited.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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

It was most opportune, for the then pressing need to strengthen the weak and recall the recalcitrants who indiscriminately charge the party with being remiss in requiting and acknowledging the Negro's devotion.

From Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century by Booker T. Washington

He was grateful for favors, though somewhat capricious in his modes of requiting them.

From Darius the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott


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