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noun

Reward n.

Regard; respect; consideration. (Obs.) "Take reward of thine own value."

That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital. "Thou returnest From flight, seditious angel, to receive Thy merited reward." "Rewards and punishments do always presuppose something willingly done well or ill."

Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works. "The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward."

(Law) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act.

Synonyms: Recompense; compensation; remuneration; pay; requital; retribution; punishment.

verb

Reward v. t. (past & past part. rewarded; pres. part. rewarding) To give in return, whether good or evil; commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. "After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord." "Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil." "I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me." "God rewards those that have made use of the single talent."

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"Reward" Quotes from Famous Books

... "the spinners and the knitters in the sun, and the free maids that weave their threads with bones." I have a fancy that the whole volume has been more or less a labour of love (never certainly did I meet an author with such a list of helpers to thank), so I am glad to think that its reward in one sense ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 10th, 1920 • Various

... "My father will reward you," said Roldan, graciously. "We would ask that you give us dinner, a thick poncho each, for I fear that it will rain before we reach Los Angeles, and that you will direct us which way to go. The ponchos shall be replaced with fine new ones ...

— The Valiant Runaways • Gertrude Atherton

... to give the signal forthwith. Gracchus broke up the assembly, after proclaiming the battle for the following day. The soldiers, highly delighted, particularly those whose enfranchisement was to be the reward of one day's prowess, employed the remaining time in getting ...

— The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six • Titus Livius

... reminiscences of party wrangling and political strife seem to me like nebulae of the past, without form and almost void. But what little I have accomplished in connection with this Life-Saving Service is compensation "sweeter than the honey in the honeycomb." It is its own exceeding great reward.[24] ...

— Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology • Margaret Brown Klapthor

... pay, but being resisted by Charles J. Ingersoll, of Philadelphia, and ex-President John Quincy Adams, it was voted down by a large majority. Mr. Adams, in the course of his remarks in opposition to the resolution, said that he "felt bound to declare that he did think it a very ill reward for the great and eminent services of General Scott during a period of thirty odd years, in which there were some as gallant exploits as our history could show, and in which he had not spared to shed his blood, ...

— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright

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