different between recourse vs recompense

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French recours, from Latin recursus, past participle of recurr?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?kôs?, IPA^(key): /???k??s/
• (General American) enPR: r??kôrs, IPA^(key): /??i?k??s/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: rik?rs?, r??k?rs, IPA^(key): /???ko(?)?s/, /??i?ko(?)?s/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /???ko?s/, /??i?ko?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Noun

recourse (countable and uncountable, plural recourses)

1. The act of seeking assistance or advice.
   • 1678, Nathaniel Wanley, The Wonders of the Little World

     Thus dyed this great Peer in the thirty sixth year of his age compleat, and three days over, in a time of great recourse unto him, and dependence upon him

   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, chapter VIII, section ii:

     Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.

2. (obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
3. (obsolete) Access; admittance.

Derived terms

Related terms

• recur
• recursion
• recursive

Translations

Verb

recourse (third-person singular simple present recourses, present participle recoursing, simple past and past participle recoursed)

1. (obsolete) To return; to recur.
2. (obsolete) To have recourse; to resort.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hacket to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (to recur): repeat; see also Thesaurus:repeat

Anagrams

• resource

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French recompense, from Late Latin recompensare, from Latin re- (“again”) + compensare (“to balance out”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?m?p?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns

Noun

recompense (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.

Synonyms

• meed
• payback
• recompence
• restitution

Related terms

• compensate
• recompensate

Translations

Verb

recompense (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.
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.

   • Recompense to no man evil for evil.

Translations

Old French

Etymology

From recompenser.

Noun

recompense f (oblique plural recompenses, nominative singular recompense, nominative plural recompenses)

1. recompense; compensation

Descendants

• English: recompense

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??e.kõ.?p?.si/

Verb

recompense

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of recompensar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of recompensar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of recompensar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of recompensar

Spanish

Verb

recompense

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of recompensar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of recompensar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of recompensar.