Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the character of a recompense; compensative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the nature of recompense; serving to recompense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Serving to
recompense .
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Examples
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This is the day that must make good that great attribute of God, his justice; that must reconcile those unanswerable doubts that torment the wisest understandings; and reduce those seeming inequalities and respective distributions in this world, to an equality and recompensive justice in the next.
Religio Medici 2007
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Justice; that must reconcile those unanswerable doubts that torment the wisest understandings; and reduce those seeming inequalities and respective distributions in this world, to an equality and recompensive Justice in the next.
Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923
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This is the day that must make good that great attribute of GOD, His Justice; that must reconcile those unanswerable doubts that torment the wisest understandings; and reduce those seeming inequalities and respective distributions in this world, to an equality and recompensive Justice in the next.
Paras 36-70 1909
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-- This is the day that must make good that great attribute of God, his justice; that must reconcile those unanswerable doubts that torment the wisest understandings; and reduce those seeming inequalities and respective distributions in this world, to an equality and recompensive justice in the next.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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