The Only Use of
recompense
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- HERMIA Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes; Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense:— Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found; Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound.†
Scene 3.2recompense = compensate for a loss; or pay a reward
Definition:
compensation for loss; or payment or reward
Recompense is seldom used in modern literature.