Meanings
nounrequitement (countable and uncountable, plural requitements)
plural requitements
- countableobsoleteuncountablerequital
Hamlet would requite his loves. Hewitt has soured on requitements. Hamlet would teach deep drinking. Hewitt is on the temperance dodge.
1880, Puck, volume 7, page 1261 more example
The erle Douglas sore beyng greued with the losse of his nacion and frendes, entendyng a requitement if it were possible of the same‥did gather a houge armie.
a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni […], published 1548, →OCLC
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