Recompense vs Restitute - What's the difference?
recompense | restitute |
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
To restore (something) to its former condition.
To provide recompense for (something).
* 1922 , , Ulysses , episode 17:
* 1966 , , Incest (1993 edition), ISBN 9780156443005,
* 1980 , , Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate , ISBN 9780801491856,
To refund.
* 2004 , , Private Sector , ISBN 9780446613934,
In transitive terms the difference between recompense and restitute
is that recompense is to give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved while restitute is to refund.As nouns the difference between recompense and restitute
is that recompense is an equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital while restitute is that which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute.As verbs the difference between recompense and restitute
is that recompense is to reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc while restitute is to restore (something) to its former condition.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.
restitute
English
Verb
(restitut)- . . . when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths. . . .
p. 28:
- What I spill in talk or acts rarely is restituted in writing.
p. 266:
- [W]hat it represents is the inability of language to restitute the loss of memory.
p. 31:
- We were even ordered to restitute the legal costs of the defendants.
