recompensing

comparative more recompensing · superlative most recompensing

1. That provides recompense; rewarding, compensatory.First known use 16th c.

   If the needy helper require regular protection, the recompensing employer must claim regular service [...].

   1814, Fanny Burney, The Wanderer

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   And such the recompensing Heav'n of those, / The happy few, who truly great of soul / Are masters of themselves [...].

   c. 1761, William Julius Mickle, A Night Piece

   The lack of explicit reference to God as the subject of the recompensing activity is not crucial in this instance.

   1999, Kent L Yiger, Paul, Judaism, and Judgment According to Deeds, page 210

plural recompensings

1. The act of rewarding or compensating; reward, compensation.First known use 15th c.

   But that it was by no means absent is shown by the numerous instances in Acts of the punishment of evildoers and the recompensing of the righteous.

   2010, Herbert McLachlan, St. Luke, the Man and his Work, page 250

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   He bringeth counsellors also to a foolish end, when they do anything good even, with no good purpose, but are going after the recompensing of a temporal reward.

   1845, Oxford translation of Pope Gregory I, Morals on the Book of Job, III.11

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of recompense