Definition of "recompense"

recompense¹

/ˌɹɛkəmˈpɛns/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural recompenses
1. An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
2. That which compensates for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
  Quotations
  O let my books be then the eloquenceAnd dumb presagers of my speaking breast,Who plead for love and look for recompenseMore than that tongue that more hath more express'd.
  1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 23

recompense²

/ˌɹɛkəmˈpɛns/

verb
third-person singular simple present recompenses, present participle recompensing, simple past and past participle recompensed
1. To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
  Quotations
  She in regard thereof him recompenst / With golden words, and goodly countenance, / And such fond fauours sparingly dispenst […]
  1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii
  He cannot recompense me better.
  c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iii]
2. To give compensation for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
3. (transitive) To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
  Quotations
  Recompense to no man evil for evil.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Romans 12:17