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retributive, a.|rɪˈtrɪbjʊtɪv|
[f. as retribute v. + -ive: cf. OF. retributif, Sp. retributivo. By Southey and Shelley stressed on the first and third syllables, after retribution.]
Characterized by, of the nature of, retribution. Freq. with justice.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. Pref., A Distributive or Retributive Justice, dispensing Rewards and Punishments throughout the whole World. 1801Southey Thalaba v. xxxi, O hard of heart! whom not the visible power Of retributive Justice..Deterr'd from equal crime! 1813Shelley Q. Mab i. 174 The sting Which retributive memory implants. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 346 It was not intended..they should escape the retributive consequences of those crimes. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 232 note, The fire of God's retributive wrath which burns eternally against unrepented sin.
Hence reˈtributively adv.
1856Doran Knts. & their Days i. 20 If the married knights were retributively slain for talking about the wooing of a comrade's widow. 1865Pall Mall G. 4 Aug. 11/2 To find his old place..retributively filled by another. |