Requited
[rɪ'kwaɪtid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Requite
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Examples
- Mr. Wopsle, as the ill-requited uncle of the evening's tragedy, fell to meditating aloud in his garden at Camberwell. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The kindness of my uncle and aunt can never be requited. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Did he sip every flower, and change every hour, until Polly his passion requited? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He had also professed to love Julia once, and how had he requited her? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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