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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
requite .
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Examples
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Saint Isaak reminds us: "God is not One who requites evil, but who sets evil right."
Scott Cairns: Why I Am Against Justice Scott Cairns 2011
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It means that replanting requites sustained care and attention.
The Natural World 2010
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It means that replanting requites sustained care and attention.
The Natural World 2010
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It means that replanting requites sustained care and attention.
The Natural World 2010
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But details are important: case studies and history -- the manual labor of writing a book -- and Klein requites herself with honors.
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It means that replanting requites sustained care and attention.
The Natural World 2010
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Then she asked, ‘O Wardan, is this how thou requites me my favours?’
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They danced all night, the night before she left, cycles of ribald dances, joyous dances, with figures of joined hands pledging that love requites everything, tender dances, openly tragic dances, with their mute declarations that all love is unrequited, the cresting movements of the dancers 'arms like waves beating against cliffs.
The Book of Heaven Storace, Patricia 2007
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His honour loves his lady too well to make her suffer much: little as she requites his love! — —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Ibn Daud's reasoning is as follows: once it has been established that only good proceeds from God, it is a matter of justice that man requites his benefactor by serving God.
Abraham Ibn Daud Fontaine, Resianne 2006
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