requiteth

Verb

requite (third-person singular simple present requites, present participle requiting, simple past and past participle requited)

1. (transitive) To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.)
   • 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...1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
2. (transitive) To repay (someone) a debt owed; specifically, to recompense or reward (someone) for a favour, a service rendered, etc.
   • Sir I am ſo poore to requite you, you muſt looke for nothing but thankes of me, […]c. 1607–1610 (date written), Thomas Middleton; Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girle. Or Moll Cut-purse. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Thomas Archer, […], published 1611, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]...
3. (transitive) To respond to or reciprocate (feelings, especially affection or love which has been shown).
   • 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 fynde1534, John Heywood, A Play of Loue, […], [London]: […] W[illiam] Rastell, →OCLC, signature B.i., verso
4. (transitive) To do or give a thing in return for (something).
5. (transitive) To retaliate or seek revenge for (an insult, a wrong, etc.).; to avenge.
   • 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.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 82

   Synonyms:

   avenge, even the score, get back at, get one's own back, retaliate, settle the score, take revenge, tar out

6. (transitive) To retaliate or seek revenge against (someone) for an insult, a wrong, etc.; also (reflexive, rare), to seek revenge for (oneself).
   • 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: […]1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Marl[owe], The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Thomas Bushell, published 1604, →OCLC, signature E, verso

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