Definition of "recompenses" [recompenses]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of recompense. (verb)

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• "The Mysteress had smiled demurely: “I daresay I have my recompenses to balance out the drawbacks.”"
• ""If Lebanon can find a more durable social contract in the years to come," Mr. Young writes, "it will do so thanks to the efforts of modest men and women, those who have a realistic understanding of the recompenses and constraints of their system, not the visionaries who will burden the system with their egoism.""
• "All the other powers of literature are coy and haughty, they must be long courted, and at last are not always gained; but Criticism is a goddess easy of access and forward of advance, who will meet the slow, and encourage the timorous; the want of meaning she supplies with words, and the want of spirit she recompenses with malignity."