KJV Dictionary Definition: requital

requital

REQUI'TAL, n. from requite.

1. Return for any office, good or bad; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation or punishment, as the requital of evil deeds.

2. Return; reciprocal action.

No merit their aversion can remove, nor ill requital can efface their love.

requite

REQUI'TE, v.t. from quit, L. cedo.

1. To repay either good or evil; in a good sense, to recompense; to return an equivalent in good; to reward.

I also will requite you this kindness. 2Sam. 2. 1Tim. 5.

In a bad sense, to retaliate; to return evil for evil; to punish.

Joseph will certainly requite us all the evil which we did to him. Gen. 1.

2. To do or give in return.

He hath requited me evil for good. 1Sam. 25.

requited

REQUI'TED, pp. Repaid; recompensed; rewarded.

requiter

REQUI'TER, n. One who requites.

requiting

REQUI'TING, ppr. Recompensing; rewarding; giving in return.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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