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1573 G. Gascoigne Disc. Aduentures Master F. I. in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 228 I thinke my selfe so much bound vnto you for diuers respects, as if abilitie doe not fayle mee, you shall fynde mee myndfull in requitall of the same.

1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 43 Ready for requitall of such gratious countenaunce to vnsheath my sworde.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. i. 139 In requital whereof, henceforth, carry your letters your selfe. View more context for this quotation

1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 59 Giving such constructions to Gods Truth, as will for requital, give largest allowance to their practices.

1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. v. 22 In requital of all his former Kindnesses, they basely deserted him.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 132 In Requital for his Kindness,..I took the best Occasion I could, to put him upon telling us the Story of old Gantlett.

1777 S. Johnson Let. 26 June (1992) III. 33 In requital of those well-intended offices which you are pleased so emphatically to acknowledge.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. v. 172 Requesting a sum of money..and offering in requital to withdraw from the province.

1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 24 There is not a horse willing to work but can get food and shelter in requital.

1886 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. VI. dlv. 46 I have no ready money, but take this from me in requital of thy kindness and good offices.

1905 Times 23 Jan. 6/3 The United States, in requital of these friendly services, may accept Samana Bay as a coaling station.

1985 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 48 462 The reference might be to a ruling which will be better for men in terms of the reward they might reasonably expect in the Hereafter, in requital of their performing a more arduous obligation.

1588 A. Munday tr. Palmerin D'Oliua i. viii. f.19^v What satisfaction maie your Florendos liue to make, in requitall of this iniurie?

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 6 Remember how they mangle our Brittish names abroad; what trespasse were it, if wee in requitall should as much neglect theirs?

1709 Scrinia Reclusa ii. 123 Finding he had rivetted himself in the King's Favour, he watch'd all Opportunities to put the Cardinal out of it, in Requital of the Injury he design'd him, in being a Bar to his Preferment.

1796 Freemason's Mag. Jan. 26 It was determined that eight of them should be hanged, in requital for a like sentence that had been made by Albert, the Archduke, upon some Hollanders.

1830 W. Scott Ivanhoe in Waverley Novels XVII. 170 In requital,..he returned the box on the ear with such interest as to kill his antagonist on the spot.

1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech iii. 144 In requital it may be for many injuries.

1885 Manch. Examiner 30 Mar. 5/1 In requital of that shameful act of perfidy.

1924 H. W. Smyth Aeschylean Trag. i. 23 The Daughters of the Sun bewail the fate of their brother,..who for one day drove the chariot of his sire and in requital for his audacity was blasted by the thunderbolt.

2002 A. H. Rasmussen in K. Ascani et al. Anc. Hist. Matters 160/1 It seemed that his death was an act of Divine Providence in requital for his offences against the goddess and her priest.