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Grammar : Noun |
Spell : re-truh-byoo-shuhn |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌrɛ trəˈbyu ʃən |
Definition of retribution
Origin :- late 14c., "repayment," from Old French retribution and directly from Latin retributionem (nominative retributio) "recompense, repayment," noun of action from past participle stem of retribuere "hand back, repay," from re- "back" (see re-) + tribuere "to assign, allot" (see tribute). Originally "that which is given in return for past good or evil;" restricted modern use of "evil given for evil done" (1560s) is from day of retribution (1520s), in Christian theology the time of divine reward or punishment.
- noun payback for another's action
- When the storm came, she was frightened, and said, 'It is a retribution.'
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- It is of no use for us to think to evade this law; neither is it a law wholly of retribution.
- Extract from : « Hetty's Strange History » by Anonymous
- Since that time they have lived in deadly fear of retribution.
- Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
- Sooner or later,--sooner or later,--the day of retribution comes.
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- There is retribution, but Falstaff is only pinched by the fairies.
- Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
- Had I done so, how poignant would be my remorse at the retribution of our own sufferings, and the pity of those I had so injured!
- Extract from : « The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete » by Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe
- It was a day of vengeance, and awfully did retribution fall.
- Extract from : « King Philip » by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
- The ethical proof of the immortality of the soul is derived from the necessity of retribution.
- Extract from : « Phaedo » by Plato
- And do you mean to say also that if he meets with retribution and punishment he will still be happy?
- Extract from : « Gorgias » by Plato
- He supposes a day of retribution, in which the good are to be rewarded and the wicked punished.
- Extract from : « Gorgias » by Plato
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