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retribution
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 retribution
A justly deserved penalty.
synoniem: requital.
Roget 807:
payment,
defrayment†;
discharge;
acquittance,
quittance;
settlement,
clearance,
liquidation,
satisfaction,
reckoning,
arrangement.
acknowledgment,
release;
receipt,
receipt in full,
receipt in full of all demands;
voucher.
salary,
compensation,
remuneration
(reward)
973.
repayment,
reimbursement,
retribution;
pay
etc.
(reward)
973;
money paid
etc.
(expenditure)
809.
ready money
etc.
(cash)
800;
stake,
remittance,
installment.
payer,
liquidator
etc.
801.
pay cash,
pay cash on the barrelhead.
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Roget 974:
penalty;
retribution
etc.
(punishment)
972;
pain,
pains and penalties;
weregild†,
wergild;
peine forte et dure [Fr.];
penance
etc.
(atonement)
952;
the devil to pay.
fine,
mulct,
amercement;
forfeit,
forfeiture;
escheat [Law],
damages,
deodand†,
sequestration,
confiscation,
premunire [Lat.];
doomage [U.S.].
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Roget 972:
punishment,
punition†;
chastisement,
chastening;
correction,
castigation.
discipline,
infliction,
trial;
judgment;
penalty
etc.
974;
retribution;
thunderbolt,
Nemesis;
requital
etc.
(reward)
973;
penology;
retributive justice.
lash,
scaffold
etc.
(instrument of punishment)
975;
imprisonment
etc.
(restraint)
751;
transportation,
banishment,
expulsion,
exile,
involuntary exile,
ostracism;
penal servitude,
hard labor;
galleys
etc.
975;
beating
etc.
v.;
flagellation,
fustigation†,
gantlet,
strappado†,
estrapade†,
bastinado,
argumentum baculinum [Lat.],
stick law,
rap on the knuckles,
box on the ear;
blow
etc.
(impulse)
276;
stripe,
cuff,
kick,
buffet,
pummel;
slap,
slap in the face;
wipe,
douse;
coup de grace;
torture,
rack;
picket,
picketing;
dragonnade†.
capital punishment;
execution;
lethal injection;
the gas chamber;
hanging
etc.
v.;
electrocution,
rail-riding,
scarpines†;
decapitation,
decollation†;
garrotte,
garrotto [It];
crucifixion,
impalement;
firing squad;
martyrdom;
auto-da-fe [Fr.];
noyade†;
happy dispatch.
[suicide as punishment]
hara-kiri,
seppuku [Jap.];
drinking the hemlock.
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Roget 973:
reward,
recompense,
remuneration,
meed,
guerdon†,
reguerdon†;
price.
[payment for damage or debt]
indemnity,
indemnification;
quittance;
compensation;
reparation,
redress,
satisfaction;
reckoning,
acknowledgment,
requital,
amends,
sop;
atonement,
retribution;
consideration,
return,
quid pro quo.
salvage,
perquisite;
vail
etc.
(donation)
784†.
douceur [Fr.],
bribe;
hush money,
smart money†;
blackmail,
extortion;
carcelage†;
solatium†.
allowance,
salary,
stipend,
wages,
compensation;
pay,
payment;
emolument;
tribute;
batta†,
shot,
scot;
bonus,
premium,
tip;
fee,
honorarium;
hire;
dasturi†,
dustoori†;
mileage.
crown
etc.
(decoration of honor)
877.
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2 retribution
The act of correcting for your wrongdoing.
3 retribution
The act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life:
— The swiftness of divine retribution.
synoniemen: payback, vengeance.
Roget 718:
retaliation,
reprisal,
retort,
payback;
counter-stroke,
counter-blast,
counterplot,
counter-project;
retribution,
lex talionis [Lat.];
reciprocation
etc.
(reciprocity)
12.
tit for tat,
give and take,
blow for blow,
quid pro quo,
a Roland for an Oliver,
measure for measure,
diamond cut diamond,
the biter bit,
a game at which two can play;
reproof valiant,
retort courteous.
recrimination
etc.
(accusation)
938;
revenge
etc.
919;
compensation
etc.
30;
reaction
etc.
(recoil)
277.
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Nederlands: vendetta, vergelding, wraak
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