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retribution

/rɛtrɪˈbjuːʃ(ə)n

noun [mass noun]

Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act: employees asked not to be named, saying they feared retribution Minos threatened war against Athens in retribution for his son’s death divine retribution...

Every fiber of her cried out for revenge, for retribution, for something to let her strike back.
In that regard, not only did they open themselves up to ethical retribution, but to potential criminal prosecution under both federal and local law.
The lex talionus, or law of retribution, teaches that the punishment should fit the crime.

Synonyms

punishment, penalty, nemesis, fate, doom, one's just deserts, due reward, just reward, wages;

justice, retributive justice, poetic justice, judgement, reckoning;

revenge, reprisal, requital, retaliation, payback, vengeance, an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth), tit for tat, measure for measure;

redress, reparation, restitution, recompense, repayment, damages, satisfaction, remedy, comeback, atonement, amends

informal one's comeuppance

archaic measure

Derivatives

retributive

/rɪˈtrɪbjʊtɪv

/ adjective ...

Whether nature or nurture, a common point was the change in attitudes regarding the purpose of justice, shifting from retributive to reformative intent.
It is important to note, however, that Brown held that the definition of punishment should not be limited to retributive actions.
You have distinguished between a restorative form of justice and a retributive form of justice.

retributory

/rɪˈtrɪbjʊt(ə)ri/ adjective ...

My own moral intuition wishes that people in general, and law professors in particular, understood retributory bloodlust as a natural human reaction, but one that we should learn to suppress, not to indulge in.
Blaming the self may allow the perceived deflection of interpersonal hostility and result in a shield against retributory threat from the external environment.
In the principles of justice, the concept of retributory justice is important to the victims and the society.

Origin

Late Middle English (also in the sense 'recompense for merit or a service'): from late Latin retributio(n-), from retribut- 'assigned again', from the verb retribuere, from re- 'back' + tribuere 'assign'.

单词	retribution
释义	retribution /rɛtrɪˈbjuːʃ(ə)n / noun [mass noun] Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act: employees asked not to be named, saying they feared retribution Minos threatened war against Athens in retribution for* his son’s death* divine retribution... Every fiber of her cried out for revenge, for retribution, for something to let her strike back. In that regard, not only did they open themselves up to ethical retribution, but to potential criminal prosecution under both federal and local law. The lex talionus, or law of retribution, teaches that the punishment should fit the crime. Synonyms punishment, penalty, nemesis, fate, doom, one's just deserts, due reward, just reward, wages; justice, retributive justice, poetic justice, judgement, reckoning; revenge, reprisal, requital, retaliation, payback, vengeance, an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth), tit for tat, measure for measure; redress, reparation, restitution, recompense, repayment, damages, satisfaction, remedy, comeback, atonement, amends informal one's comeuppance archaic measure Derivatives retributive /rɪˈtrɪbjʊtɪv / adjective ... Whether nature or nurture, a common point was the change in attitudes regarding the purpose of justice, shifting from retributive to reformative intent. It is important to note, however, that Brown held that the definition of punishment should not be limited to retributive actions. You have distinguished between a restorative form of justice and a retributive form of justice. retributory /rɪˈtrɪbjʊt(ə)ri/ adjective ... My own moral intuition wishes that people in general, and law professors in particular, understood retributory bloodlust as a natural human reaction, but one that we should learn to suppress, not to indulge in. Blaming the self may allow the perceived deflection of interpersonal hostility and result in a shield against retributory threat from the external environment. In the principles of justice, the concept of retributory justice is important to the victims and the society. Origin Late Middle English (also in the sense 'recompense for merit or a service'): from late Latin retributio(n-), from retribut- 'assigned again', from the verb retribuere, from re- 'back' + tribuere 'assign'. Rhymes ablution, absolution, allocution, attribution, circumlocution, circumvolution, Confucian, constitution, contribution, convolution, counter-revolution, destitution, dilution, diminution, distribution, electrocution, elocution, evolution, execution, institution, interlocution, irresolution, Lilliputian, locution, perlocution, persecution, pollution, prosecution, prostitution, restitution, Rosicrucian, solution, substitution, volution
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retribution

Derivatives

retributive

retributory

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