RETRIBUTION

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retribution
n. revenge, retaliation, vengeance; reciprocation, requital, repayment in kind; allocation of rewards and punishment in a future life (Theology)


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Retribution
Retribution may refer to:Retributive justiceRetribution Engine, a video game engineRetribution (novel), a novel by Jilliane HoffmanRetribution (film), a 2006 film by Kiyoshi KurosawaRetribution (band), a heavy metal band, an authorised add-on for the game StarCraft.the name used for some markets for the 2000 film Complicity (film)Retribution, third in the Von Carstein trilogy by Steven Savile[1] Retribution, a band from the Netherlands.
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retribution
Noun
1. a justly deserved penalty
(synonym) requital
(hypernym) penalty
2. the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
(hypernym) correction, rectification
3. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"
(synonym) vengeance, payback
(hypernym) retaliation, revenge


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rétribution (f)
n. consideration, thoughtfulness, respectfulness

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Retribution
(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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