Refund vs Recompense - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between refund and recompense

is that refund is to return (money) to (someone); to reimburse while recompense is .

is an amount of money returned.

(en verb)

To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.

A governor, that had pillaged the people, was sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken. — L'Estrange.

If you find this computer for sale anywhere at a lower price, we'll refund you the difference.

(obsolete) To supply again with funds.

to refund a railroad loan

(obsolete, rare) To pour back.

Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the object. — Ray.

(en noun)

An amount of money returned.

If the camera is faulty, you can return it to the store where you bought it for a refund.

(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.