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- noun Common misspelling of
recompenses . - verb Common misspelling of
recompenses .
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Examples
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Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
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Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
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In many places, it was not possible to avoid their generous importunity; and these kind attentions, which so honourably testified national gratitude, were accepted, by his lordship, as the most gratifying recompences of his public service.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
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The respective prices of corn, rice, and sugar, are there probably in the natural proportion, or in that which naturally takes place in the different crops of the greater part of cultivated land, and which recompences the landlord and farmer, as nearly as can be computed, according to what is usually the original expence of improvement and the annual expence of cultivation.
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Now praise is one of the most proper recompences of good and virtuous actions; this good men seldom meet with in this life, with out a great deal of allay and abatement; and therefore the providence of God hath so ordered things, that it should come in the properest season, when our work is done, and when we are out of the danger of the temptation of it.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 04.
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That the rewards and recompences of the next world shall likewise bear a proportion to the degrees of good or evil which we have done in this life, though it hath been controverted, seems also to be sufficiently clear from Scripture.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08.
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Secondly, The resurrection of Christ from the dead assures us of a future judgment, and of the recompences and rewards of another world.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.
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That Christ was raised from the dead, is a demonstration of another life after this; and no man that believes the immortality of our souls, and another life after this, ever doubted of a future judgment; so that, by the resurrection of Christ from the dead, God hath given assurance unto all men of a future judgment, and consequently of the recompences and rewards of another world.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.
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In many places, it was not possible to avoid their generous importunity; and these kind attentions, which so honourably testified national gratitude, were accepted, by his lordship, as the most gratifying recompences of his public service.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
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Would public faith had been pledged to the Slaves, before they were permitted to fight in our cause, that their own liberty was one of the recompences, which they were to receive, for their courage and fidelity!
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