Requite vs Restitution - What's the difference?
requite | restitution |
To return in kind; To repay; to recompense; to reward.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 3
*:But, remember—
*:For that's my business to you,—that you three
*:From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
*:Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it,
*:Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed
*:The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
*:Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
*:Against your peace.
* 1925 , Franz Kafka, The Trial'', ''Vintage Books (London) , pg. 91:
To retaliate.
(legal) A process of compensation for losses.
The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
* Spenser
* Sandys
A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
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That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
(medicine) The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour.
As a verb requite
is to return in kind; to repay; to recompense; to reward.As a noun restitution is
(legal) a process of compensation for losses.requite
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Alternative forms
*(archaic) requitVerb
(en-verb)- He bowed slightly to K.'s uncle, who appeared very flattered to make this new acquaintance, yet, being by nature incapable of expressing obligation, requited the Clerk of the Court's words with a burst of embarrassed but raucous laughter.
Derived terms
* unrequitedAnagrams
* quieterReferences
* *restitution
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Noun
(wikipedia restitution)- A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown.
- He restitution to the value makes.
- the restitution of an elastic body