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requite (verb) – 1. (a) To make return for (something done or felt) in a similar or appropriate fashion.
(b) To avenge (an insult or wrongdoing).
- (a) To respond to (another) or do something to or for (another) in return for that person’s action or emotion.
(b) To get revenge on (another) for wrongdoing.
Source : The Free Dictionary
Etymology : You might be familiar with the phrase “unrequited love.” Love that has not been requited is love that has not been returned or paid back in kind, which brings us to the common denominator in the above definitions for requite—the idea of repayment, recompense, or retribution. The quite in requite is a now obsolete English verb meaning “to quit” or “to pay.” (Quite is also related to the English verb quit, the oldest meanings of which include “to pay up” and “to set free.”) Quiten, the Middle English source of quite, can be traced back through Anglo-French to Latin quietus, meaning “quiet” or “at rest,” a word which is also an ancestor of the English word quiet.
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