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noun

The act of retaliating: counteraction, counterattack, counterblow, reciprocation, reprisal, requital, retaliation, revenge, tit for tat, vengeance. Idioms: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, like for like, measure for measure. See attack/defend, forgiveness/vindictiveness.

n

Definition: payback for another's action
Antonyms: forgiveness, pardon, sympathy

A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce

n.

A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.

In the lines following, addressed to an Emperor in exile by Father Gassalasca Jape, the reverend poet appears to hint his sense of the improduence of turning about to face Retribution when it is talking exercise:

    What, what! Dom Pedro, you desire to go
        Back to Brazil to end your days in quiet?
    Why, what assurance have you 'twould be so?
        'Tis not so long since you were in a riot,
        And your dear subjects showed a will to fly at
    Your throat and shake you like a rat.  You know
    That empires are ungrateful; are you certain
    Republics are less handy to get hurt in?

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IN BRIEF: Something given in payment for a wrong; revenge.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. — Hosea Ballou (1771-1852)

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• Fate - retribution: reward or punishment, esp. in hereafter

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - gengældelse, straf

Nederlands (Dutch)
vergelding, vergoeding

Français (French)
n. - châtiment (sout)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Vergeltung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ανταπόδοση, (δίκαιη) τιμωρία, εκδίκηση

Italiano (Italian)
retribuzione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - punição (f), represália (f), multa (f)

Русский (Russian)
возмездие, кара

Español (Spanish)
n. - castigo justo, pena merecida, recompensa

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - vedergällning

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
报酬, 报答, 惩罚

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 報酬, 報答, 懲罰

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 보답, 응보, 보복

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 返報, 報い, 応報, 天罰, 報復, 仕返し

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) جزا, ثواب, عقوبه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮עונש, גמול‬

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