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Definition of recompensing : of Recompense

Synonyms:

making amends, appeasing, retaliating, redeeming

reimbursing, remedying, adjusting, compensating, redressing, atoning, refunding, rectifying, correcting, returning, offsetting, settling, squaring, remunerating

Usage examples:

• After the election was over, Lady Kyte, by way of recompensing a zealous partisan of her husband, took an innkeeper's daughter, Molly Jones, for her maid; " a tall, genteel girl, with a fine complexion, and seemingly very modest and innocent." - "Strange Pages from Family Papers", T. F. Thiselton Dyer.
• Trusting to these assurances, and the interest which had been made in my behalf, I hugged myself in the expectation of seeing it not only acted, but acted to the greatest advantage, and this I thought could not fail of recompensing me in ample manner for the anxiety and affliction I had undergone; but six weeks being elapsed, I did not know how to reconcile Mr. Marmozet's silence with his promise of writing to me in ten days after he set out for the country; however, I was at last favoured with a letter, importing that he had made some remarks on my tragedy, which he would freely impart at meeting, and advised me to put it, without loss of time, into the hands of that manager, who had the best company; as he himself was quite uncertain whether or not he should be engaged that winter. - "The Adventures of Roderick Random", Tobias Smollett.
• Indeed, if it hadn't been for the recompensing features, Mary's enthusiasm would probably have become chilled by experience, and dreams have come to nothing. - "Mary Minds Her Business", George Weston.