retribution
Nouns
- (n) a justly deserved penalty requital,
- (n) the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
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(n) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
- "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19
- "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield
- he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him
- the swiftness of divine retribution