different between requital vs reparation

English

Etymology

From Middle English requite, 1570-1580.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?t?l

Noun

requital (countable and uncountable, plural requitals)

1. Compensation for loss or damage; amends.
2. Retaliation or reprisal; vengeance.
3. Repayment, reward, recompense, return in kind.
   • 2009, Dietrich Von Hildebrand, The Nature of Love, p. 233:

     But we are thinking here above all of the happiness that comes with the requital of love, of the case in which my love is returned with an equal love.

   • mid-1590s, William Shakespeare, King John, Act II, sc. 1:

     O, take his mother's thanks, a widow's thanks,

     Till your strong hand shall help to give him strength

     To make a more requital to your love.

   • 1599, Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Act I, sc. 1:

     My lord mayor, you have sundry times

     Feasted myself and many courtiers more:

     Seldom or never can we be so kind

     To make requital of your courtesy.

   • 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (quoting Johnson):

     In requittal [sic] of those well-intended offices, which you are pleased so emphatically to acknowledge, let me beg that you make in your devotions one petition for my eternal welfare.

Translations

Anagrams

• quartile

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reparatio, reparationis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reparation (countable and uncountable, plural reparations)

1. (usually in the plural) A payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s).

   • I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.

2. (archaic) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.

   the reparation of a bridge or of a highway

   • 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

     The church at Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches; and having bad eyes, and being awkward about this, I used to go and read in the fields on Sunday.

Synonyms

• (a payment): restitution, compensation, amends, satisfaction
• (a renewing): restoration, repair

Related terms

• repair
• reparative

Translations

See also

• war reparations

Anagrams

• Praetorian, Prætorian, praetorian, prætorian

Swedish

Etymology

reparera +? -tion

Noun

reparation c

1. a repair (mending something broken)

Declension