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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/requite/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/requite/#x1)
- And now we have requited thee thy service, Ivan Golik, farewell!" (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/requite/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/requite/#x3)

### 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;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.316/)
- [If I have requited him that did evil unto me, or spoiled mine adversary unto emptiness;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.70/)
- [But Thou, O LORD, be gracious unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.684/)
- [He will requite the evil unto them that lie in wait for me; destroy Thou them in Thy truth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.888/)
- [He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor requited us according to our iniquities.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1810/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «requite» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/requite/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.