Definition of "recompence"

recompence

noun
countable and uncountable, plural recompences
1. Obsolete form of recompense.
  Quotations
  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
  c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of […] Compositions for Alienations
verb
third-person singular simple present recompences, present participle recompencing, simple past and past participle recompenced
1. Obsolete form of recompense.