Crossword-Solution: RETRIBUTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retribution | n. | The act of retributing; repayment. |
| Retribution | 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. |
| Retribution | n. | Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “RETRIBUTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the act of correcting for your wrongdoing | 1 answer |
| Payback, so to speak | 1 answer |
| Just deserts, so to speak | 1 answer |
| getting even | 2 answers |
| AVENGEMENT | 5 answers |
| reprisal | 5 answers |
| LIKE for like | 6 answers |
| retaliation | 11 answers |
| vengeance | 11 answers |
| payback | 22 answers |
| measure for measure | 22 answers |
| avenge | 30 answers |
| revenge | 36 answers |
| Correction | 36 answers |
| Pay Back | 42 answers |
| redress | 44 answers |
| Compensation | 46 answers |
| Justice | 46 answers |
| Recompense | 47 answers |
| Malevolence | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RETRIBUTION (5)
Doubtless, however, either of these stern and black-browed Puritans would have thought it quite a sufficient retribution for his sins that, after so long a lapse of years, the old trunk of the family tree, with so much venerable moss upon it, should have borne, as its topmost bough, an idler like myself.
That they never take a man prisoner lends strength to the belief that the fate of the girls they steal is worse than death.” “Is it not a just retribution?” I could not help but ask.
The retribution that followed every vengeful success was so sweeping and majestic that the boys always retired from the field badly worsted.
What tragic dignity, for example, can be wrought into a scene like this! How can we elevate our history of retribution for the sin of long ago, when, as one of our most prominent figures, we are compelled to introduce—not a young and lovely woman, nor even the stately remains of beauty, storm-shattered by affliction—but a gaunt, sallow, rusty-jointed maiden, in a long-waisted silk gown, and with the strange horror of a turban on her head! Her visage is not even ugly.
But is the tie that once bound us, completely broken? Am I as entirely parted from the good and evil fortune of his life as if we had never met and never loved? What do you think, Henry? I can hardly believe it.' 'If you could bring the retribution on him that he has deserved,' Henry Westwick answered sternly, 'I might be inclined to agree with you.' As that reply passed his lips, the old nurse appeared again at the door, announcing another visitor.
Quotes with RETRIBUTION (3)
There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do not believe in a god, who do they believe gives the Universal Law of following good and shunning evil? Obviously, mankind. But then that is a dangerous thing, for if a man does not believe in a god capable of giving perfect laws, he is in the position of declaring all laws come from man, and as man is imperfect, he can declare that as fallible men make imperfect laws, he can pic…
When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events' occurri…
There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them, until the day when all hidden things shall be revealed. Nor have I so read or interpreted the Holy Writ, as to understand that the disclosure of human thoughts and deeds, then to be made, is intended as part of the retrib…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2008–2025).