LekhoriLekhoriTo repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.
But remember / (For that's my buſineſſe to you) that you three / From Millaine did ſupplant good Proſpero, / Expos'd vnto the Sea (vvhich hath requit it) / Him, and his innocent childe: for vvhich foule deed, / The Povvres, delaying (not forgetting) haue / Incens'd the Seas, and Shores; yea, all the Creatures / Againſt your peace: […]
To repay (someone) a debt owed; specifically, to recompense or reward (someone) for a favour, a service rendered, etc.
Sir I am ſo poore to requite you, you muſt looke for nothing but thankes of me, […]
To respond to or reciprocate (feelings, especially affection or love which has been shown).
My loue is requyted ſo louyngly / That in euery thyng that may delyght my mynde, / My wyt can not wyſhe it ſo well as I fynde
Chiefly in the form in requite for or of: synonym of requital (“compensation for damage or loss; return in kind, recompense, repayment, reward”).
The verb is derived from Middle English requiten (“to repay”), and then partly from both of the following: * From re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backward’) + quiten (“to pay, pay for; to repay; to ...
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