requital
pronunciation
How to pronounce requital in British English:
UK [rɪ'kwaɪtl]
How to pronounce requital in American English:
US [rɪ'kwaɪtəl]
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- Noun:
- a justly deserved penalty
- an act of requiting; returning in kind
Word Origin
- requital (n.)
- 1570s, from requite + -al (2).
Example
- 1. What requital can we make for all his kindness to us ?
- 2. She made no claim upon it in requital for what she suffered ;
- 3. For the lord has a day of vengeance , a year of requital by zion 's defender .
- 4. Such will be their entertainment on the day of requital !
- 5. Some respite is found in the arms of beautiful carla , but after chinese rebels cross the border to loot and murder american soldiers , reynolds abandons all notions of " military protocol " and seeks requital .