requite
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English requiten (“to repay”), and then partly from both of the following:
* From re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backward’) + quiten (“to pay, pay for; to repay; to acquit (someone of a charge), exonerate; to prove (oneself) innocent; to answer, reply; to atone for (a sin); to compensate, make amends; to depart, leave; to equal, match; to fulfil (an obligation); to give back, return; to give up, relinquish; to release, set free; to render (a service); to reward; to give retribution, take revenge”) (from Old French quitter (“to free, liberate”) (modern French quitter), from quitte (“free, liberated”) + -er (suffix forming verbs)). Quitte is derived from Latin quiētus (“at rest; quiet”), the perfect passive participle of quiēscō (“to repose, rest; to sleep; to be quiet or still”), from quiēs (“rest, repose; sleep; calm, peace, quiet”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest; peace, rest”)) + -scō (suffix forming verbs with the sense ‘to begin to do [something]’).
* From Old French requiter, requitter (“to free or liberate again”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + quitter (see above).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: requites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: requiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: requited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: requited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: requite
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: requite
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: requited
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: requite
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: requitest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: requited
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: requitedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: requites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: requiteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: requited
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: requite
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: requited
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: requite
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: requited
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: requite
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: requiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: requited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: requit
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But remember / (For that's my buſineſſe to you) that you three / From Millaine did ſupplant good Proſpero, / Expos'd vnto the Sea (vvhich hath requit it) / Him, and his innocent childe: for vvhich foule deed, / The Povvres, delaying (not forgetting) haue / Incens'd the Seas, and Shores; yea, all the Creatures / Againſt your peace: […]
He that requiteth a good turne, muſt imploy ſomevvhat of his ovvne, as he doth vvho repayeth the monie he ovveth: but he layeth out nothing vvho ſatisfieth himſelfe, no more then he giueth, vvho giueth to himſelfe. […] He therefore that requiteth a good turne pleaſureth him againe, from vvhom hee hath receiued any thing.
[T]hey requited Chriſts paſſion, and died for him vvho ſuffered for them.
Children are disobedient, and they sting / Their father's hearts to madness and despair / Requiting years of care with contumely.
Good cryptographists are rare indeed; and thus their services, although seldom required, are necessarily well requited.
"It was the act of an Englishman—a fellow Englishman," said the little man simply. "I hope that one day I shall have the opportunity of requiting it … I probably shall," he added rather sadly. "It is one of the pleasant if quite onerous duties of a man of my position to requite the services he receives—usually on a disproportionately extravagant scale."
gloss: To repay (someone) a debt owed; specifically, to recompense or reward (someone) for a favour, a service rendered, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Sir I am ſo poore to requite you, you muſt looke for nothing but thankes of me, […]
This place, to vvhich Ariſtotle ovv'd his birth, he aftervvards requited vvith extraordinary gratitude.
[…] I vvas as vvell able to requite him for a large Preſent as he vvas to make it, and had reſolv'd it before I knevv he had ſent any Thing to the Ship; ſo that this exchanging of Preſents vvas but a kind of generous Barter or Commerce: […]
[W]hat here vve call our life is ſuch, / So little to be loved, and thou ſo much, / That I ſhould ill requite thee to conſtrain / Thy unbound ſpirit into bonds again.
Well, Edie, we have enough to pay our debts, let folks say what they will, and requiting you is one of the foremost—let me press this sum upon you.
[R]egard this Earth / Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou / Requitest for knee-worship, prayer, and praise, / And toil, and hecatombs of broken hearts, / With fear and self-contempt and barren hope.
He was standing at the window, […] when in bounces little red-faced, bustling Dr. Toole—the joke and the chuckle with which he had just requited the fat old barmaid still ringing in the passage—[…]
[W]e beseech Allah Almighty to make great thy reward eternal and requite thee thy beneficence.
gloss: To respond to or reciprocate (feelings, especially affection or love which has been shown).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My loue is requyted ſo louyngly / That in euery thyng that may delyght my mynde, / My wyt can not wyſhe it ſo well as I fynde
To love thee boundless, was my bold resolve, / Because my courage fail'd to equal thee. / I then began with thousand tender arts / And pure fraternal love, thy heart to storm. / But cold, proud soul, requitedst thou this love.
gloss: To do or give a thing in return for (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To retaliate or seek revenge for (an insult, a wrong, etc.).; to avenge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let me this craue, ſith firſt I vvas defyde, / That firſt I may that vvrong to him requite: / And if I hap to fayle, you ſhall recure my right.
And when Joſephs brethren ſaw that their father was dead, they ſaid, Joseph will peraduenture hate vs, and will certainely requite vs all the euill which we did vnto him.
[…] I will requite, / Although mine enemy be great and strong, / His cruel threat—do thou defend the young!
gloss: To retaliate or seek revenge against (someone) for an insult, a wrong, etc.; also (reflexive, rare), to seek revenge for (oneself).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My Gratious Lord, not ſo much for the iniury hée offred me héere in your preſence, as to delight you with ſome mirth, hath Fauſtus worthily requited this iniurious knight, which being all I deſire, I am content to releaſe him of his hornes: […]
[B]y kindling a fire in each Image, they made ſuch a ſmoke that the Indians vvounded & ſlevv many Tartars, vvho could not ſee to requite them [i.e., themselves] through the ſmoke: […]
And for a world bestowed, or a friend lost, / He can feel hate, fear, shame; not gratitude: / He but requites me for his own misdeed.
[T]he doubly felon / […] / Requite himself for his most just expulsion / By blackening publicly his sovereign's consort, / And be resolved by his upright compeers.
gloss: To greet (someone) in return.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: They him ſaluted ſtanding far afore; / VVho vvell them greeting, humbly did requight, / And asked, to vvhat end they clomb that tedious hight.
Lovvly they him ſaluted in meeke vviſe, / But he through pride and fatnes gan deſpiſe / Their meaneſſe; ſcarce vouchſafte them to requite.
gloss: To make up for (something); to compensate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To respond to (a question, a statement, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Jeſus […] requited their queſtion vvith an other, as though a man ſhoulde dryue out one nayle vvith an other.
He bowed slightly to K.'s uncle, who appeared very flattered to make this new acquaintance, yet, being by nature incapable of expressing obligation, requited the Clerk of the Court's words with a burst of embarrassed but raucous laughter.
gloss: To take the place of (someone or something); to replace.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: [For if] tranſmutation be made from one mans body into another, as if a piece of fleſh be exchanged from the biciptall muſcle of either parties arme, and about them both, an Alphabet circumſcribed; upon a time appointed as ſome conceptions affirme, they may communicate at vvhat diſtance ſoever. For if the one ſhall prick himſelf in A, the other at the ſame time vvill have a ſenſe thereof in the ſame part; […] vvhich is a vvay of intelligence very ſtrange, and vvould requite the Arte of Pythagoras; vvho could read a reverſe in the Moone.
This Roman Hierarchy ſhall be Politically killed, deveſted of all Povver and Authority: From vvhence vvill naturally flovv Mourning and Famine, grief of heart, vvith ſcarcity and poverty to requite their luxury before.
Thy Mother vvell deſerves that ſhort delight, / The nauſeous Qualms of ten long Months and Travel to requite.
gloss: Of an action, a quality, etc.: to be a reward for (itself).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
reflexive
transitive
examples: 'Tis all vve beg thee, to conceal from Sight / Thoſe Acts of Goodneſs, vvhich themſelves requite.
[T]o have saved you requites itself. We who walk the greenwood do many a wild deed, and the Lady Rowena's deliverance may be received as an atonement.
gloss: To recompense, to repay.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To retaliate, to seek revenge.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] Chriſt and his holy apoſtles, exhort euery man to pacience and ſufferance, without requiting of an euil dede or making anye defence but vſing further ſufferance, & doyng alſo good for euill, […]
Becauſe the ſpoiler is come vpon her, euen vpon Babylon, and her mightie men are taken, euery one of their vowes is broken, for the Lord God of recompenſes ſhall ſurely requite.
gloss: Chiefly in the form in requite for or of: synonym of requital (“compensation for damage or loss; return in kind, recompense, repayment, reward”).
pos: noun
Derived words: requitable
requital
requitative
requited
requiteful
requiteless
requitement
requiter
requiting
unrequitable
unrequital
unrequited
unrequited love
unrequitedly
unrequitedness
unrequitement
unrequiting
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