requital

The act of requiting.

Return, as for an injury or friendly act.

The act of requiting, or that which requites: return for any office, good or bad.

In a bad sense, retaliation or punishment.

Synonyms Remuneration, payment, retribution. Requital differs from the other nouns indicating reward in expressing most emphatically either a full reward or a sharp retaliation. In the latter sense it comes near revenge (which see).