Definition of "recompensing" []

• Present participle of recompense. (verb)

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• "God, in recompensing men's services, has an eye to the principle they go upon in those services, and rewards according to those principles; and there is no principle of obedience that will be more acceptable to God, nor have a greater influence upon us, than a believing confidence in God."
• "There was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doating fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues, and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her."
• "As in some cases these deposits represented several percent or more of the authorities annual operating budgets – so not recompensing them would have had disastrous effects on the services these councils provide (in the UK local authorities have very little real power to raise additional local taxes or issue bonds so it would have to be services that would be cut to meet any budget shortfall)."