REQUITAL Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

requital

noun

ri-ˈkwī-tᵊl

as in reparation

payment to another for a loss or injury the judge ordered the landlord to pay his former tenants $100,000 each as requital for goods lost or damaged in the apartment fire

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as in payment

something (as money) that is given or received in return for goods or services the electrician's requital for the used car was in the form of work on the dealer's house

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as in revenge

the act or an instance of responding to an injury with an injury "an eye for an eye" is a form of requital that is still legal in some countries

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Examples of requital in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But criminal fines on companies — and on some individuals — have reached stratospheric heights, and that’s partly because the prospect of requital and deterrence seemed to require it. —

Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 June 2024 The Trumpist version, however, begins and ends with the vision of a great leader on the brink of sinister overthrow and martyrdom—whose great love for the scorned nation behind him urgently requires immediate requital and redemption. —

Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2021 And reminding them that requital of a debt is the purest form of acknowledging that debt. —

William F. Buckley Jr., National Review, 26 Nov. 2020

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