recompensive

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adjective

Serving to recompense or reward

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiverecompensive (comparative more recompensive, superlative most recompensive)

comparative more recompensive · superlative most recompensive

  1. 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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APA

recompensive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recompensive

MLA

“recompensive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recompensive. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “recompensive,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recompensive.

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