Repayment, reward, recompense, retribution.
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| 释义 | the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > retaliation or retribution (35) yieldinga1340 Repayment, reward, recompense, retribution. talion1412 = retaliation, n.; esp. in the Mosaic, Roman, and other systems of Law, the Lex talionis, or †talion law, the principle of exacting compensation… retributiona1425 Punishment for bad conduct, criminal actions, etc., typically considered in terms of redress or repaying a debt to society; the avenging of wrong… recompensec1425 Retribution for an injury or offence. Obsolete. recompensationa1513 = recompense, n. (in various senses). requitement1548 The action or an act of retaliation or revenge; return, reciprocation. Also: satisfaction, gratification. retaliation1581 Repayment (in kind) for injury or insult; reprisal, revenge; retribution. Also in retaliation. lex talionis1597 The law of retaliation, ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’. (The accusative and ablative forms no longer occur in English contexts.) requital1597 Retribution or reparation for an injury, injustice, etc.; retaliation, revenge. retaling1597 Repayment of a kindness or injury; retaliation. taliationa1601 A return of like for like; retaliation; = talion, n.1 law of retalion1607 Retaliation. Only in law (also penalty) of retalion: the retributive theory of punishment, based on Mosaic law, in which a punishment resembles… talio1611 A requiting of like for like, retaliation; = talion, n.1 retail1615 Retaliation. retorsion1637 Return for something done; retaliation. Now chiefly: (International Law) retaliation within the law by a state on another's subjects; an instance of… repercussion1641 figurative. A return of any kind of action, a responsive act, a resulting effect or implication; an undesired or unintended consequence… retributing1645 reddition1656 Retaliation, retort. Obsolete. rare. retortion1762 Return for something done; retaliation. Now chiefly: (International Law) lawful retaliation by a state against (the subjects of) another; an… poetical justice1796 the ideal justice in distribution of rewards and punishments supposed to be appropriate in a poem or other work of imagination; (now also more… utu1828 Recompense, satisfaction, return or price paid for injuries received. retort1836 Retaliation; an instance of this. Frequently in physical retort. quits1865 Reprisal, retaliation. Obsolete. rare. poetic justice1991 (a) (originally) = poetical justice n. at poetical, adj. compounds; (b) (now more generally) the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved… Subcategories:— act or instance of (4) — one who (2) — advocate of (2) — reprisal (3) |
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