Word Meanings - RETRIBUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of retributing; repayment. In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly. Bp. Hall. 2. That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly,

Additional info about word: RETRIBUTION

1. The act of retributing; repayment. In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly. Bp. Hall. 2. 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. All who have their reward on earth, . . . Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds. Milton. 3. Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment. It is a strong argument for a state of retribution hereafter, that in this world virtuous persons are very often unfortunate, and vicious persons prosperous. Addison. Syn. -- Repayment; requital; recompense; payment; retaliation.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RETRIBUTION)

• Penalty
• Pain
• punishment
• forfeiture
• price
• fare
• retribution
• amercement
• Reprisal
• Retaliation
• self-compensation
• self-indemnification
• Revenge
• repayment
• requital
• reprisals
• reciprocation
• vengeance
• Vengeance
• Retribution
• retaliation
• revenge

Related words: (words related to RETRIBUTION)

• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• PRICE
  to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
• PRICEITE
  A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.
• REVENGEFUL
  Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak. Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious.
• PRICELESS
  1. Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable. 2. Of no value; worthless. J. Barlow.
• RECIPROCATION
  1. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness. 2. Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides. Sir T. Browne.
• REPRISAL
  rappresaglia, LL. reprensaliae, fr. L. reprehendere, reprehensum. See 1. The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity. Debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place. Macaulay. 2. Anything taken
• REVENGEMENT
  Revenge. He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.
• RETRIBUTION
  1. The act of retributing; repayment. In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly. Bp. Hall. 2. That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly,
• REVENGEABLE
  Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.
• REVENGEANCE
  Vengeance; revenge.
• PUNISHMENT
  A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention. (more info) 1. The act of punishing. 2. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person
• FORFEITURE
  1. The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act. Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. Hakluyt. 2. That which is forfeited; a penalty;
• REVENGER
  One who revenges. Shak.
• REQUITAL
  The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds. No merit
• RETALIATION
  The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. God . . . takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise
• PENALTY
  1. Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass. Death is the penalty imposed. Milton. 2. The suffering,
• PRICED
  Rated in price; valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced labor.
• VENGEANCELY
  Extremely; excessively. "He loves that vengeancely." Beau. & Fl.
• REVENGELESS
  Unrevenged. Marston.
• AVENGEANCE
  Vengeance.
• UNPRICED
  Not priced; being without a fixed or certain value; also, priceless. "Amethyst unpriced." Neale .
• CAPRICE
  See FICKLENESS (more info) a fantastical goat leap), fr. L. caper, capra, goat. Cf Capriole, 1. An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.
• REVENGE
  to avenge, revenge, F. venger, L. vindicare. See Vindicate, 1. To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person