Recompense vs Warison - What's the difference?
recompense | warison |
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
(label) Wealth, possessions; a treasure (literal or figurative).
(label) A reward, recompense.
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*:whanne sire Tristram was in the see / he said / Grete wel kyng Marke and all myn enemyes / and saye hem I wille come ageyne whan I maye / And wel am I rewarded for the fyghtynge with sire Marhausmany other dedes haue I done for hym / and now haue I my waryson
A war cry played to order the soldiers to attack (normally played on a bugle).
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As nouns the difference between recompense and warison
is that recompense is an equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital while warison is wealth, possessions; a treasure (literal or figurative).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.