Recompense vs Foryield - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between recompense and foryield

is that recompense is while foryield is (dialectal|or|obsolete) to pay back, recompense.

(en noun)

An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.

That which compensates for an injury.

He offered money as recompense''' for the damage, but what the injured party wanted as '''recompense was an apology.

* * (l) * restitution

(recompens)

To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.

* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:

She in regard thereof him recompenst / With golden words, and goodly countenance, / And such fond fauours sparingly dispenst

* Shakespeare

He cannot recompense me better.

To give compensation for an injury.

The judge ordered the defendant to recompense the plaintiff by paying $100.

To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.

* Bible, Rom. xii. 17

Recompense to no man evil for evil.

(dialectal, or, obsolete) to pay back, recompense.

(obsolete) to reward.