Re*ward" (?), n. [See Reward, v., and cf. Regard, n.]
1. Regard; respect; consideration. [Obs.]
Take reward of thine own value.
Chaucer.
2. 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.
Milton.
Rewards and punishments do always presuppose something willingly done well or ill.
Hooker. 3. Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.
The dead know
not anything, neither have they any more
a reward.
Eccl. ix. 5. 4. (Law) Compensation
or remuneration for services; a sum of money
paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act. Burrill.
Syn. -- Recompense; compensation; remuneration; pay; requital; retribution;
punishment.
Re*ward" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rewarded;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Rewarding.]
[OF. rewarder, another form of regarder, of German origin. The original sense is, to look at, regard, hence, to regard as
worthy, give a reward to. See Ward, Regard.] 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.
Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
1 Sam. xxiv.
17. I will
render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
Deut. xxxii. 41.
God rewards those that have made use
of the single talent.
Hammond.
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