requital

plural requitals

1. countableuncountableCompensation for damage or loss; amends.

   Synonyms: requite, satisfaction, amends, acquittal, assyth, bote, compensation, indemnification

2. countableuncountableRetaliation or reprisal; vengeance.
3. countableuncountableReturn in kind; recompense, repayment, reward.

   O, take his mother's thanks, a widow's thanks, / Till your strong hand shall help to give him strength / To make a more requital to your love.

   c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]

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   My lord mayor, you have sundry times / Feasted myself and many courtiers more: / Seldom or never can we be so kind / To make requital of your courtesy.

   1599, Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday, act I, scene 1

   In requittal [sic] of those well-intended offices, which you are pleased so emphatically to acknowledge, let me beg that you make in your devotions one petition for my eternal welfare.

   1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (quoting Johnson)

   What is the requital that the Athenians of the earth give to those who have struggled through the stormy water, and the dark night, for their applause?—both reproach and scorn.

   1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 309–310

   But we are thinking here above all of the happiness that comes with the requital of love, of the case in which my love is returned with an equal love.

   2009, Dietrich von Hildebrand, The Nature of Love, page 233

   Synonyms: requite