Recompense vs Donation - What's the difference?
recompense | donation | 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
As nouns the difference between recompense and donation
is that recompense is an equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital while donation is a voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.As a verb recompense
is to reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.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.
