Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "requite" is om gepaste opbrengs te maak vir ('n guns, diens of oortreding); om terug te betaal of te vergeld. Dit kan ook beteken om te reageer op (liefde of toegeneentheid); om te vergeld.
To her I chiefly owe my preservation in that country we never parted while I was there I called her my Glumdalclitch, or little nurse and I should be guilty of great ingratitude if I omitted this honorable mention of her care and affection towards me, which I heartily wish it lay in my power to requite as she deserves, instead of being the innocent but unhappy instrument of her disgrace, as I have too much reason to fear.
This sin, so far as it has lain in my power, I have endeavoured to avoid ever since I have enjoyed the faculty of reason and if I am unable to requite good deeds that have been done me by other deeds, I substitute the desire to do so and if that be not enough I make them known publicly for he who declares and makes known the good deeds done to him would repay them by others if it were in his power, and for the most part those who receive are the inferiors of those who give.
