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recompensation
noun as in pay
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The Navy announced last year that it had censured three other admirals for ethics violations after an internal investigation determined that they had accepted gifts and luxurious meals from Francis without proper recompensation.
Therewith he stabbed himself through the thigh so that the blood started, and he said, "O good Lord, take this in recompensation of that I have done against Thee, my Lord."
"Why, sir, that I'd wish publicly to read my recompensation in your church on Sunday next."
Then Sir Percivale made great sorrow, and drew his sword unto him, saying: Sithen my flesh will be my master I shall punish it; and therewith he rove himself through the thigh that the blood start about him, and said: O good Lord, take this in recompensation of that I have done against thee, my Lord.
O death, O furious flames of hell, my just recompensation!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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