| 单词 | poetic justice |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoetic justice poetic justice n. (a) (originally) = poetical justice n. at poetical adj. Compounds; (b) (now more generally) the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions. ΘΚΠ society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > maintenance of right by reward or punishment > specific communicative justicea1513 commutative justice1531 corrective justice1531 distributive justice1531 retributive justice1619 expletive justice1652 expletory justice1654 poetical justice1678 poetic justice1691 retributivism1954 the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > retaliation or retribution yieldinga1340 talion1412 retributiona1425 recompensec1425 recompensationa1513 requitement1548 retaliation1581 lex talionis1597 requital1597 retaling1597 taliationa1601 law of retalion1607 talio1611 retail1615 retorsion1637 repercussion1641 retributing1645 reddition1656 retortion1762 poetical justice1796 utu1828 retort1836 quits1865 poetic justice1991 1691 C. Gildon Hist. Athenian Soc. i. 9/2 'Tis said of Sophocles, and Euripides, that one represented the Accidents of Human Life, without regard to that Poetic Justice, as they too often happen; the other, as they ought to have been. 1714 C. Gildon New Rehearsal 34 The Death of Cleone..is contrary to Poetic Justice, and the rules of Providence. 1899 Daily News 25 July 6/1 When the prodigal has satisfied poetic justice, and retaliated by nearly killing his supplanter. 1912 M. A. Quinian Poetic Justice in Drama iv. 207 It is proper..to regard poetic justice as a determinant of fate in the drama. 1945 R. Hofstadter Social Darwinism in Amer. Thought ii. 25 In applying evolution to society, Spencer, and after him the Social Darwinists, were simply doing poetic justice to its origins. 1964 E. Bentley Life of Drama x. 326 The modern dramatists..have objected to Poetic Justice, and have delighted to let the malefactor go unpunished. 1983 P. Gethner in J. Redmond Drama & Relig. 40 The convention of poetic justice vindicates both the heroes and their gods, whose primary aims seem to be enforcing ethical rules and promoting human happiness. 1991 G. Abbott Lords of Scaffold (BNC) 105 Many people still believe that..Doctor Guillotin died beneath the blade of his brainchild, the National Razor... Would it not be poetic justice if he who had devised it, eventually died by it? 2004 D. Cohen People who have stolen from Me xxv. 258 ‘It's what they call poetic justice,’ laughs Harry. ‘After all those years of deceit, we fire him for the one thing he didn't do’ < as lemmas |
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