recompensive
recompensive adjective: serving to recompense or reward.
Adjective
recompensive (comparative more recompensive, superlative most recompensive)
- Serving to recompense or reward
- This is the day that must make good that great attribute of God, his justice, that must reconcile those unanswerable doubts which torment the wisest understandings, and reduce those seeming inequalities and respective distributions in the world, to an equality and recompensive Justice in the next.1962, Joan Bennett, Sir Thomas Browne: 'A Man of Achievement in Literature, Cambridge University Press
Forms of recompensive
| comparative | more recompensive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most recompensive |
Origin of recompensive
From recompense + -ive.
Questions about recompensive
- What does recompensive mean?
- Recompensive means serving to recompense or reward.
- What part of speech is recompensive?
- Recompensive is an adjective.
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