Requital

Definitions: Requital

Requital

Noun

1. A justly deserved penalty.

2. An act of requiting; returning in kind.

Date "requital" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Requital \Re*quit"al\ (-al), noun. [From Requite.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Requital

Synonym: retribution (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Gratitude	Requital.
Punishment	Discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty; retribution; thunderbolt, Nemesis; requital; (reward); penology; retributive justice.
Reward	Indemnity, indemnification; quittance; compensation; reparation, redress, satisfaction; reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop; atonement, retribution; consideration, return, quid pro quo.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Requital

English words defined with "requital": quits, Quittal ♦ Recompensement, Requitement, retributive, retributory ♦ Warison. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Requital (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "requital": in requital for ♦ in requital of ♦ make full requital. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "requital"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpagim (avenge, disbursement, pay, retaliation, revenge, visitation), shpërblim (bonus, compensation, consideration, desert, deserts, guerdon, honor, honorarium, honour, kudos, meed, pay, payment, premium, recompense, recoupment, remuneration, render, reparations, repayment, return, reward). (various references)

Arabic		‏مكافأة (consideration, hay, incentive, pay, pay off, payment, recompense, remuneration, repayment, retribution, reward, rewarding), ‏عوض (atone, indemnity, make, make amends, make up, make up for, offset, recompense, recoup, recuperate, redeem, reimburse, remunerate, restore, retrieve, satisfy, setoff, substitute), ‏جزاء (pay, payment, penalty, recompense, retribution, sanction), ‏إنتقام (nemesis, reprisal, retaliation, revenge). (various references)

Bulgarian		компенсация (amends, atonement, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, offset, pay, recompense, recoupment, reprisal, restitution, set off), възмездие (comeuppance, judgement, judgment, nemesis, pay, payment, payoff, restitution, retribution, reward, wage), отплата (meed, nemesis, payoff, quittance, recompense, remuneration, repayment, retaliation, retort, return, reward, wage), наказание (amercement, award, castigation, discipline, gruel, infliction, judgement, judgment, pain, pay, payment, penalty, plague, punishment, rap, retribution), награда (award, hay, hire, meed, payment, payoff, premium, prize, reward). (various references)

Czech		odplata (nemesis, reckoning, retaliation, retribution, reward). (various references)

French		revanche (retaliation, return match, revenge), récompense (recompense, reimbursement, repayment, retribution, reward, rewarding). (various references)

German		Vergeltung (quittance, repayment, retaliation, retribution, vengeance). (various references)

Greek		ανταπόδοση (reciprocation, repayment, restitution, retaliation). (various references)

Hebrew		ת�'מול (benefit, gratuity, recompense, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, reward), �'מול (bereft, earnings, offset, payment, recompense, repayment, retaliation, retribution, reward, wage, weanling). (various references)

Hungarian		viszonzás (compensation, offset, reciprocation, recompense, repayment, return), megtorlás (punishment, recompense, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, reward, sanction, strafe), jutalom (accolade, award, consideration, douceur, gratification, guerdon, meed, plume, poundage, premium, prise, prize, recompense, remuneration, reward, sanction). (various references)

Indonesian		pembalasan (recompense, reply, reprisal). (various references)

Italian		ricompensa (award, compensation, consideration, meed, payoff, repayment, retribution, reward), contraccambio (reciprocality, rejoinder). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"� � . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		へ�"ぽう (law revision, revised law). (various references)

Manx		aalhiasagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		equitalray

Portuguese		retribuição (comeback, pay, reciprocation, remuneration, render, repayment, retribution, return, reward, wage), represália (comeback, reprisal, retaliation, retort, retortion, revenge, vengeance, victimization), remuneração (comeback, compensation, pay, payment, premolar, remuneration, reward, salary), recompensa (award, booty, bounty, comeback, compensation, consideration, gratification, guerdon, meek, merit, payment, premium, prise, prize, recompense, repayment, reward, sanction, wage), vingança (avengement, comeback, retaliation, retribution, revenge, sword, vengeance), pagamento (comeback, defrayal, defrayment, discharge, pay, payment, repayment, satisfaction, settling), paga (comeback, payment, remuneration, render, reward). (various references)

Romanian		recompensã (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, award, compensation, consideration, desert, hire, pay, prize, recompense, remuneration, repayment, retribution, reward), rãzbunare (pay, retribution, revenge, vengeance), rãsplatã (bestowal, desert, guerdon, payment, payola, price, prize, recompense, retribution, return, reward, wage), compensaţie (amends, compensation, damage, drawback, indemnification, indemnity, offset, quittance, redress, remedy, restitution, retrieval, set off). (various references)

Russian		вознаграждение (compensation, gratification, payment, remuneration, repayment, reward), возмездие (come back, recompense, retaliation, retribution). (various references)

Scottish		luigheachd. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vraćanje (backtrack, recurrence, refund, rehabilitation, rendering, return), naknada (indemnity, recompense, reimbursement, wage). (various references)

Spanish		satisfacción (gratification, indulgence, redress, relief, reparation, satisfaction), desquite (retaliation, retribution, return match), compensación (amends, balance, balancing, clear, clearance, clearing, compensation, equalisation, equalization, indemnification, indemnity, offset, quid pro quo, quittance, recoupment, redress, reparation, satisfaction, setoff, sop, springing, trade off, trim). (various references)

Swedish		vedergällning (payoff, reprisal, retribution, reward). (various references)

Thai		การตอบสนอง (reaction). (various references)

Turkish		misilleme (answer, quittance, recompense, reprisal, retaliation, retaliatory, retortion, retribution), karşılık (answer, as against, bargain, consideration, counter, counterbalance, counterpart, counterweigh, equivalent, offset, payment, payoff, provision, provisions, quid pro quo, quittance, reciprocation, recompense, remuneration, repayment, reply, response, return, reward, riposte, wages), bedel (compensation, consideration, equivalent, forfeit, offset, pay, price, purchase money, quid pro quo, quittance, rate, substitute, substitutional, wages, worth), ödül (award, guerdon, meed, plume, premium, prize, purse, recompense, remuneration, reward), öç (nemesis, retaliation, retribution, revenge, vengeance). (various references)

Ukranian		компенсація (amends, atonement, balancing, compensation, consideration, offset, quits, recompense, recoupment, reinforcement, remuneration, reparation, set off), відплата (atonement, comeback, comeuppance, nemesis, oblation, quits, retaliation, retort, retribution, reward, wages, wrack), винагорода (amends, compensation, gratification, indemnification, payment, recompense, remunerating, remuneration). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự trả ơn, sự báo thù (quittance), sự báo oán sự thưởng, sự báo ơn sự trả thù, sự đền bù (compensation), sự đền đáp (consideration, repayment, retribution, return). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "requital": requitals. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Requital" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arquata, Equitrac, Erquiza, recutita, Requena, Requiao, requiat, requit, requitall, Rokita. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "requital" (pronounced 'Re*quit"al'): Abyssal, Accrual, Accusal, Actinozoal, Adjournal, Albuminoidal, Amenorrhoeal, Anomal, Anthropoidal, Apogeal, Apohyal, Appraisal, Apprizal, Approval, Arachnoidal, Arctogeal, Arousal, Arrival, Asteroidal, Avowal, Axal, Balmoral, Banal, Basihyal, Beheadal, Bequeathal, Bestowal, Betrayal, Betrothal, Botryoid, Botryoidal, Burghal, Carousal, Catarrhal, Cemental, Ceratohyal, Choroidal, Cital, Coastal, Cockal, Colloidal, Comprisal, Conchoidal, Conoidal, Convival, CORAL, Coralloidal, Cordal, Cotidal, Crinoidal. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: quartile.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-q-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: liquate, quilter, tequila, uralite.
	-2 letters: quarte, quatre, retail, retial, ritual, rutile, tailer.
	-3 letters: alert, alter, ariel, artel, aurei, equal, irate, later, liter, litre, lutea, quail, quale, quare, quart, quate, quiet, quilt, quire, quirt, quite, ratel, relit, retia, taler, telia, terai, tiler, trail, trial, ultra, uraei, urate, ureal, urial, uteri, utile.
	-4 letters: airt, alit, aril.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-q-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: quartiles, requitals.
	+2 letters: equatorial, quatrefoil, tranquiler, ultraquiet.
	+3 letters: aquarellist, aquiculture, equilateral, equilibrant, equilibrate, quarterlies, quatrefoils, tranquilest, tranquilize, tranquiller.
	+4 letters: aquarellists, aquicultures, equalitarian, equilibrants, equilibrated, equilibrates, equilibrator, quadrivalent, quarterfinal, superquality, tranquilized, tranquilizer, tranquilizes, tranquillest, tranquillize, tranquilness.
	+5 letters: equalitarians, equilibrating, equilibration, equilibrators, equilibratory, grandiloquent, quadrilateral, quadrivalents, quadruplicate, quarterfinals, quasiparticle, tranquilities, tranquilizers, tranquillized, tranquillizer, tranquillizes, ventriloquial.
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