English

Adjective

recompensive ‎(comparative more recompensive, superlative most recompensive)

1. Serving to recompense.

This is the day that must make good that great attribute of God, his justice, that must reconcile those unanswerable doubts which torment the wisest understandings, and reduce those seeming inequalities and respective distributions in the world, to an equality and recompensive Justice in the next.

Sir Thomas Browne: 'A Man of Achievement in Literature', by Joan Bennett, Cambridge University Press 1962