Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not requitable; not capable of being requited, recompensed, repaid, or the like.
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Examples
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Yet after the abbatis abbatoir of Verdun and the unrequitable shame of 1940 the French turned to Indochine and Algerie with equally unrequited cran -- for identity-ratification -- for purification in battle, win or lose.
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Yet after the abbatis abbatoir of Verdun and the unrequitable shame of 1940 the French turned to Indochine and Algerie with equally unrequited cran -- for identity-ratification -- for purification in battle, win or lose.
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For benefits oblige; and obligation is thraldom; and unrequitable obligation, perpetual thraldom; which is to one's equal, hateful.
Leviathan 2007
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For benefits oblige, and obligation is thraldom, and unrequitable obligation perpetual thraldom, which is to ones equal, hateful.
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But the curse came to some here and some there -- the curse of an unrequitable passion.
The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892
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But though Father Bernard, ` not being of the world, worldly, 'may despise the costly masterpiece produced by the arts — perchance the magic of the East, — he cannot be indifferent to the unrequitable generosity that has remitted to us the holy standard of
Tales of Glauber-Spa 1833
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And so far from unrequitable, that they are designed by the wily caliph to purchase the services of the emperor against the
Tales of Glauber-Spa 1833
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For benefits oblige; and obligation is thraldom; and unrequitable obligation, perpetual thraldom; which is to one's equal, hateful.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651
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Once upon a time there was a girl in unrequitable (but not unrequited) love with her boss.
Feministing Courtney 2010
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Yet after the abbatis abbatoir of Verdun and the unrequitable shame of 1940 the French turned to Indochine and Algerie with equally unrequited cran -- for identity-ratification -- for purification in battle, win or lose.
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