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n. Something justly deserved; recompense.

n. Something given or demanded in repayment, especially punishment.

n. Theology Punishment or reward distributed in a future life based on performance in this one.

n. Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.

n. The act of retributing; repayment.

n. That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or wrong.

n. Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment.

n. The act of retributing or paying back for past good or evil; hence, that which is given in return; requital according to merits or deserts, in present use generally restricted to the requital of evil, or punishment; retaliation.

n. In theology, the distribution of rewards and punishments in a future life.

n. simply a continuance of the present (continuance theory);

n. a life of gradual development by means of discipline (purgatory), or future redemptive influences (future probation).

n. Synonyms Vengeance, Retaliation, etc. (see revenge), repayment, payment.

n. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

n. a justly deserved penalty

n. the act of correcting for your wrongdoing

"Boehner says NUH-UH: Jim Jordan and I may not always agree on strategy, but we are friends and allies, and the word retribution is not in my vocabulary."

retaliation    revenge    penalty    correction    rectification   

retaliation    retribution theory   

retributive    retributionist   

recompense    retaliation    payment    repayment    requital    revenge   

Aleutian    Andalusian    Confucian    Constitution    Lilliputian    Lucian    absolution    attribution    constitution    contribution   

retaliation    reprisal    vengeance    punishment    chastisement    re-demption    reparation    doom    destiny    atonement