requital

How To Use requital In A Sentence

• We saw earlier that, although human punishment does not bear the full burden of requiting good and evil, it must hold up requital as an ideal.
• So Hamlet has sent multiple letters to Ophelia without requital prior to his appearance in her closet, and the ‘declension’ which Polonius describes in ‘a short tale’ occurred over some period.
• I told her as I thought, she could not put a more innocent thing there, for I did not find that it had any smell at all; besides that I was willing it should do me some service in requital of the pains I had taken for it. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
• I have taken a strong position against schemes of extortion from the fellow citizens of people here in America, based on the idea that somehow or another that would be requital for slavery.
• When the girl heard the broker’s words, she drew from her finger a costly signet-ring of ruby and said to the man, “Carry me to yonder youth, and if he buy me, this ring shall be thine, in requital of thy travail with me this day.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Miriam and begging of his favour that he write to all the Moslems, enjoining her seizure and sending back to him by a trusty messenger of the servants of his Highness the Commander of the Faithful; adding, “And in requital of your help and aidance in this matter, we will appoint to you half of the city of Rome the Great, that thou mayst build therein mosques for the Moslems, and the tribute thereof shall be forwarded to you.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Then she threw me a purse containing three hundred dinars and said to me, ‘This is mine and I give it to thee by way of douceur in requital of thy judgment.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• One's due, reward, or punishment; requital.
• And in requital of such good wishes, our good master gives you a holyday. Obi Melodrama Act I, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles
• Or, far better for her still than this, do thou write her a letter with thine own hand (Allah endow it with all excellence!), and appoint it in requital of the intimacy that was between us in the nights of time past, whereof thou must preserve the memory. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night