poetical justice
noun
The ideal justice in distribution of rewards and punishments supposed to be appropriate in a poem or other work of imagination; (now also more generally) the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions, poetic justice.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in Thomas Rymer (?1643–1713), literary critic and historian.
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