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retribution
English
Etymology
From Latin retribuere (“repay”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???t???bju??n/
Noun
retribution (countable and uncountable, plural retributions)
- Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.
- 1983, Richard A. Posner, The economics of justicem p.208:
- Whereas retribution focuses on the offender's wrong, retaliation focuses on the impulse of the victim (or of those who sympathize with him) to strike back at the offender.
- 1999, Barbara Hanawalt, Medieval crime and social control, p.73:
- 1. Revenge is for an injury; retribution is for a wrong.
- 2. Retribution sets an internal limit to the amount of the punishment according to the seriousness of the wrong; revenge need not.
- 3. Revenge is personal; the agent of retribution need have no special or personal tie to the victim of the wrong for which he exacts retribution.
- 4. Revenge involves a particular emotional tone, pleasure in the suffering of another, while retribution need involve no emotional tone.
- 1983, Richard A. Posner, The economics of justicem p.208:
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:revenge
Hypernyms
- punishment
Related terms
- retributionist
- retributive
- retributionary
- retributory
Translations
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infliction
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?fl?k??n/
Noun
infliction (plural inflictions)
- The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition.
Related terms
- inflict
Translations
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