Pronunciations
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/ˈɹɛkəmpɛnsɪŋ/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
Adjective
That provides recompense; rewarding, compensatory.
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And such the recompensing Heav'n of those, / The happy few, who truly great of soul / Are masters of themselves [...].
If the needy helper require regular protection, the recompensing employer must claim regular service [...].
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The lack of explicit reference to God as the subject of the recompensing activity is not crucial in this instance.
Noun
The act of rewarding or compensating; reward, compensation.
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He bringeth counsellors also to a foolish end, when they do anything good even, with no good purpose, but are going after the recompensing of a temporal reward.
But that it was by no means absent is shown by the numerous instances in Acts of the punishment of evildoers and the recompensing of the righteous.