Definition of Retribution

Retribution

The act of retributing; repayment.

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.

Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment.

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Retribution Quotations

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea Ballou

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
Louis D. Brandeis

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
Calvin Klein

If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.
Paul Begala

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
Ron Silver

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
Meg Greenfield

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Retribution Translations

retribution in German is Strafe, Vergeltung
retribution in Latin is talio; -onis

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