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Meaning of retribution


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  retribution
      n 1: a justly deserved penalty [syn: {retribution}, {requital}]
      2: the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
      3: 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" [syn: {vengeance}, {retribution},
         {payback}]


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