retributionistn.

1825 J. Sabine Universal Salvation Indefensible upon Mr. Balfour's Ground vi. 122 He abandons his own system, and becomes a Retributionist, in order to preserve a little faith yet on the earth.

1867 Evangelical Repository June 282 The same argument might be used to prove that there should be no punishment at all. But neither the retributionist nor the annihilationist take that ground.

1880 Christian Union 14 July 28/3 Universalists, Restorationists, Annihilationists and Retributionists..hold their respective views as dogmas.

1998 G. Hunsinger in R. F. Thiemann & W. C. Placher Why are we Here? x. 148 The Augustinians accuse the universalists of overlooking too much prominent timber when sighting the mainland, whereas the Origenists accuse the retributionists of not seeing the forest for the trees.

1878 R. D. Hill & F. D. Hill Recorder of Birmingham ix. 171 The retributionists obtained an expression of their views in a clause of the Act which requires that the child shall pass fourteen days in prison, before he is eligible for the Reformatory.

1911 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 2 646 The fundamental concepts of punishment, the true principles which underlie the teachings of the retributionists.

1939 Mind 48 153 Even Bradley, the fiercest retributionist of modern times, says ‘Having once the right to punish we may modify the punishment.’

1986 Daily Tel. 10 Mar. 14/2 By the same token, of course, the retributionist holds that those who, in a deliberate manner, inflict death should themselves die.

2008 Guardian 27 Feb. 31/2 Reaction comes from the familiar army of moaners, platitudinisers and retributionists.