0 to give or do something in return for something given to you or done for you:
Requited love is not enough to sustain a long-term relationship.
So, if we cannot requite desert, then we ought not to.
A selection with this pronunciation is: rebut, recant, reduce, refresh, refuse, regret, relent, remove, repeat, repute, requite, resemble, resist, retain, reveal, revolt and reward.
Previously we focused on the fact that primary legal duties and wrongs do not necessarily presuppose any wrong or negative conduct to requite.
In other words, if we cannot requite desert, then desert should be rejected as a criterion of justice.
Even if legal requital necessarily presupposes some wrong to requite, this need not be true of requital generally.
My account does not answer this question, because in neither case is there any wrong or negative conduct to requite.
This explains why the courts virtually always have opportunity to requite.
When the courts make law in the form of a general rule by setting a precedent, they need not and typically do not requite anything at all.
