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Recourse vs Recompense - What's the difference?

recourse | recompense |

As nouns the difference between recourse and recompense

is that recourse is the act of seeking assistance or advice while recompense is an equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.

As verbs the difference between recourse and recompense

is that recourse is to return; to recur while recompense is to reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.

recourse

English

Noun

  • The act of seeking assistance or advice.
  • * Sir H. Wotton
    • Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.
  • * Dryden
    • Our last recourse is therefore to our art.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 12
    • Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoid's huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.
  • * 1929 , , chapter VIII, section ii:
    • Nor were the wool prospects much better. The .
  • (obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
  • * Spenser
    • swift recourse of flushing blood
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • Preventive physic preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.
  • (obsolete) Access; admittance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Give me recourse to him.

    Derived terms

    * legal recourse

    Related terms

    * recur

    Verb

    (recours)
  • (obsolete) To return; to recur.
  • * (rfdate) Foxe:
    • The flame departing and recoursing .
  • (obsolete) To have recourse; to resort.
  • * (Bishop Hacket)

    • Anagrams

    * resource

    recompense

    English

    Noun

    (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.

    Synonyms

    * * (l) * restitution

    Verb

    (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.