What does recompence mean?

recompence

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

verb

Obsolete

"The fees , or allowances , that are termly given to these deputies , receiver , and clerks , for recompence of these their pains , I do purposely pretermit ; because they be not certain , but arbitrary"

recompences (plural) recompences (present, singular) recompencing (participle, present) recompenced (participle, past) recompenced (past)

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