Word Meanings - REQUITAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds. No merit

Additional info about word: REQUITAL

The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds. No merit their aversion can remove, Nor ill requital can efface their love. Waller. Syn. -- Compensation; recompense; remuneration; reward; satisfaction; payment; retribution; retaliation; reprisal; punishment.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REQUITAL)

• Retaliation
• Revenge
• repayment
• retribution
• requital
• reprisals
• reciprocation
• vengeance

Related words: (words related to REQUITAL)

• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• REVENGEFUL
  Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak. Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious.
• RECIPROCATION
  1. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness. 2. Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides. Sir T. Browne.
• REVENGEMENT
  Revenge. He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.
• RETRIBUTION
  1. The act of retributing; repayment. In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly. Bp. Hall. 2. That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly,
• REVENGEABLE
  Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.
• REVENGEANCE
  Vengeance; revenge.
• REVENGER
  One who revenges. Shak.
• REQUITAL
  The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds. No merit
• RETALIATION
  The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. God . . . takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise
• VENGEANCELY
  Extremely; excessively. "He loves that vengeancely." Beau. & Fl.
• REVENGELESS
  Unrevenged. Marston.
• REVENGE
  to avenge, revenge, F. venger, L. vindicare. See Vindicate, 1. To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person
• VENGEANCE
  vindicare to lay claim to, defend, avenge, fr. vindex a claimant, defender, avenger, the first part of which is of uncertain origin, and the last part akin to dicere to say. See Diction, and cf. Avenge, 1. Punishment inflicted in return for an
• AVENGEANCE
  Vengeance.
• PREPAYMENT
  Payment in advance.