different between requite vs requitable

English

Alternative forms

• (archaic) requit

Etymology

From Middle English requiten (“to repay”), from Old French requiter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???kwa?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

requite (third-person singular simple present requites, present participle requiting, simple past and past participle requited)

1. (transitive) To return (usually something figurative) that has been given; to repay; to recompense
   • 1610, Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 3 scene 3

     But, remember—

     For that's my business to you,—that you three

     From Milan did supplant good Prospero;

     Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it,

     Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed

     The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have

     Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,

     Against your peace.

   • 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, A Few Words on Secret Writing

     Good cryptographists are rare indeed; and thus their services, although seldom required, are necessarily well requited.

   • 1937, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir (translators), Franz Kafka, The Trial, Vintage Books (London), published 1983, pg. 91, original published 1925

     He bowed slightly to K.'s uncle, who appeared very flattered to make this new acquaintance, yet, being by nature incapable of expressing obligation, requited the Clerk of the Court's words with a burst of embarrassed but raucous laughter.
2. (intransitive) To retaliate.

Derived terms

• unrequited

Translations

Noun

requite

1. requital

References

• requite in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• requite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• quieter

English

Etymology

requite +? -able

Adjective

requitable (comparative more requitable, superlative most requitable)

1. That may be requited.