retribution

1 a justly deserved penalty [syn: requital]

2 the act of correcting for your wrongdoing

3 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

1219; "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" [syn: vengeance, payback]

English

Etymology

Latin, from retribuere 'assign again'.

Pronunciation

• /ˌrɛtrɪˈbjuʃɒn/
• SAMPA: /%rEtrI"bjuSQn/

Noun

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

Translations

Derived terms

• retributionist
• retributive

Retribution may refer to:

• Retributive justice
• Retribution Engine, a video game engine
• Retribution (novel), a novel by Jilliane Hoffman
• Dreamland: Retribution, a 2007 novel by Jim DeFelice and Dale Brown
• Retribution (Malevolent Creation album), a 1992 album by Malevolent Creation
• Retribution (film), a 2006 film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

• StarCraft: Retribution, an authorised add-on for the game StarCraft
• the name used for some markets for the 2000 film Complicity (film)
• Retribution, third in the Von Carstein trilogy by Steven Savile

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