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Compensatory vs Recompensing - What's the difference?

compensatory | recompensing |

As adjectives the difference between compensatory and recompensing

is that compensatory is that compensates, or serves as compensation while recompensing is that provides recompense; rewarding, compensatory.

As a noun recompensing is

the act of rewarding or compensating; reward, compensation.

As a verb recompensing is

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compensatory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That compensates, or serves as compensation

    • recompensing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That provides recompense; rewarding, compensatory.
  • * c. 1761 , (Williarm Julius Mickle), ‘A Night Piece’:
    • And such the recompensing Heav'n of those, / The happy few, who truly great of soul / Are masters of themselves [...].
  • * 1814 , (Fanny Burney), The Wanderer :
    • If the needy helper require regular protection, the recompensing employer must claim regular service [...].
  • * 1999 , Kent L Yiger, Paul, Judaism, and Judgment According to Deeds , p. 210:
    • The lack of explicit reference to God as the subject of the recompensing activity is not crucial in this instance.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of rewarding or compensating; reward, compensation.
  • * 1845 , Oxford translation of (Pope Gregory I), Morals on the Book of Job , III.11:
    • 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.
  • * 2010 , Herbert McLachlan, St. Luke, the Man and his Work , p. 250:
    • 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.

    Verb

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