Emily Dickinson Lexicon

REC'OM-PENSE, n.

1. An equivalent returned for any thing given, done or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; as, a recompense fur services, for damages, for loss, &c.
2. Requital; return of evil or suffering or other equivalent; as a punishment. To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. – Deut. xxxii. And every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward. – Heb. ii.