Recompense vs Benefaction - What's the difference?
recompense | benefaction | Related terms |
An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
That which compensates for an injury.
To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
* Shakespeare
To give compensation for an injury.
To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
* Bible, Rom. xii. 17
An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 70:
An act of charity; almsgiving.
Recompense is a related term of benefaction.
As a verb recompense
is .As a noun benefaction is
an act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.recompense
English
Noun
(en noun)- He offered money as recompense''' for the damage, but what the injured party wanted as '''recompense was an apology.
Synonyms
* * (l) * restitutionVerb
(recompens)- She in regard thereof him recompenst / With golden words, and goodly countenance, / And such fond fauours sparingly dispenst
- He cannot recompense me better.
- The judge ordered the defendant to recompense the plaintiff by paying $100.
- Recompense to no man evil for evil.
benefaction
English
Noun
(en noun)- We all feel that sleep is a benefaction to our psychical life, and the obscure awareness of the popular mind is clearly unwilling to be robbed of its prejudice that the dream is one of the ways in which sleep confers its benefactions.