Definition of "requital" [re•quit•al]

• The act of requiting. (noun)
• Return, as for an injury or friendly act. (noun)

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• "An they wish for gold, they shall have gold; and should they wish for silver, they shall have silver; or an they prefer for merchandise, I will give them merchandise; and to whom I owe a thousand I will give two thousand in requital of that wherewith he hath veiled my face before the poor; for I have plenty."
• "I have no ready money; but take this from me in requital of thy kindness and good offices."
• "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.’"