Meanings
comparative more recompensive · superlative most recompensive
- Serving to recompense or reward
This is the day that must make good that great attribute of God, his justice, that must reconcile those unanswerable doubts which torment the wisest understandings, and reduce those seeming inequalities and respective distributions in the world, to an equality and recompensive Justice in the next.
1962, Joan Bennett, Sir Thomas Browne: 'A Man of Achievement in Literature, Cambridge University Press
Origin
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recompensive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recompensive
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