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Defenition of the word retribution

    • Defenition of the word retribution

      • Action taken to respond to an insult, injury or other wrong by trying to harm its perpetrator.
      • the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
      • a justly deserved penalty
      • 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"
      • 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
      • the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

    Synonyms for the word retribution

      • justice
      • payback
      • reckoning
      • reprisal
      • requittal
      • revenge
      • vengeance

    Similar words in the retribution

      • retribution
      • retribution's
      • retributions

    Hypernyms for the word retribution

      • correcting
      • correction
      • penalty
      • rectification
      • retaliation
      • revenge

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