requite

«requite» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: repay — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

repay

part of speech

verb, base form

meaning for a pupil

To pay someone back, whether for good or for bad things they have done. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say repay. The sentences use the same sense as the dictionary, but the word itself is old.

examples

• Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not He thy father that hath gotten thee? hath He not made thee, and established thee? (Torah DEU.32.6, JPS 1917) tree →
• And now we have requited thee thy service, Ivan Golik, farewell!" (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →
• And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said: 'It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.' (Torah GEN.50.15, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

requite

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 4 (Torah 2, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;
• If I have requited him that did evil unto me, or spoiled mine adversary unto emptiness;
• But Thou, O LORD, be gracious unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
• He will requite the evil unto them that lie in wait for me; destroy Thou them in Thy truth.
• He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor requited us according to our iniquities.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «requite» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.