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requite

[ri-kwahyt] / rɪˈkwaɪt /


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

From The Guardian Oct. 21, 2019

I think that’s every girl’s dream, that this punk who doesn’t really like us and doesn’t really requite our love, that he’s going to change all the sudden.

From Time Jan. 28, 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

When I felt most strongly Thy presence, and Thy love, O Lord, said I, how wonderfully Thou bestowest Thy favors on such a wretched creature, who requites Thee only with ingratitude.

From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Ah, no,—that were a vain pretence, Justice eternal strict requites.

From Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

It is true that the popular belief and popular legends which are preserved in post-Biblical writings as well, insisted on a justice which requites “measure for measure.”

From Jewish Theology by Kaufmann Kohler

Thou seest now, Edelwald, how France requites his service.

From The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

Witness the lands which "flowed with milk and honey," Held out unto the hungry Israelites: To this we have added since, the love of money, The only sort of pleasure which requites.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

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

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

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

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

Romans on finding out his absence took courage and turned their attention to requiting those who had invited him.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio

Moreover, assuming the validity of their hypothetical idol, there are phenomena left unexplained, the ordinary case for instance of an individual inspiring but not requiting another’s love.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus




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