| 单词 | poetical justice |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoetical justice poetical justice n. the ideal justice in distribution of rewards and punishments supposed to be appropriate in a poem or other work of imagination; (now also more generally) the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions, poetic justice. 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 1678 T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 26 Though historical Iustice might rest there; yet poetical Iustice could not be so content. It would require that the satisfaction be compleat and full, e're the Malefactor goes off the Stage. 1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida Pref. sig. a2v We are glad when we behold his crimes are punish'd, and that Poetical justice is done upon him. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 93. ⁋6 Addison is suspected to have denied the expediency of poetical justice because his own Cato was condemned to perish in a good cause [cf. Spectator No. 40]. 1796 M. Wollstonecraft Lett. Sweden, Norway & Denmark xix. 210 It seems even a sort of poetical justice, that whilst this minister is crushing at home, plots of his own conjuring up, that on the continent..he should..be accused of wishing to set the world on fire. 1832 T. S. Fay Crayon Sketches II. 109 Dramatic authors..sacrificing both probability and possibility in their zeal to mete out poetical justice to the misbehaved persons of the drama. 1882 Cent. Mag. Mar. 667/1 There was a species of poetical justice in the rude manner in which their eyes were opened to the real facts of the case. 1921 W. Allison Alias Richard Power xxxii. 321 As for Lyons, the detective assured the girl that poetical justice would overtake him. 2010 Daily Tel. 9 Dec. (Features section) 29 It had been quite in order to impose poetical justice on the play. < as lemmas |
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