Retribution
[retrɪ'bjuːʃ(ə)n] or [,rɛtrɪ'bjuʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of correcting for your wrongdoing.
(noun.) a justly deserved penalty.
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Definition
(n.) The act of retributing; repayment.
(n.) That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or wrong.
(n.) Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Used especially with respect to the divine government.] [1]. Repayment, requital, recompense, reward, compensation, return.[2]. Distribution of rewards and punishments.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Penalty, repayment, reward, compensation, punishment, visitation
ANT:Condonation, remission, pardon, reprieve, non-retribution, sparing
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.
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Examples
- They call this _retribution_. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The sentence of the court is passed, but the day of retribution has not been set. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- However, retribution came to them afterward. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Excess had brought on that frightful disease that seems to throw the lurid shadows of a coming retribution back into the present life. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And if he turned to God there seemed to be no answer but the pressure of retribution. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- How extravagant soever the fees of counsellors at law may sometimes appear, their real retribution is never equal to this. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They may, notwithstanding, solace themselves with my assurance that a day of retribution will come, and may be nearer than many of them anticipate. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Thus we combine business with retribution, and all things are lovely. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She realized the stern retribution which justice metes to the murderer. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It would be a stern and awful retribution, Phaidor; but a just one. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Is it not a just retribution? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Taxes upon luxuries are finally paid by the consumers of the commodities taxed, without any retribution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- How awfully, at the last moment, had the working of the retribution THERE been snatched from my feeble hands! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In the description of the meadow, and the retribution of the good and evil after death, there are traces of Homer. Plato. The Republic.
- Of piety and impiety to gods and parents, and of murderers, there were retributions other and greater far which he described. Plato. The Republic.
- These, said Er, were the penalties and retributions, and there were blessings as great. Plato. The Republic.
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