Associations to the word «Retribution»

Wiktionary

RETRIBUTION, noun. Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.

Dictionary definition

RETRIBUTION, noun. A justly deserved penalty.
RETRIBUTION, noun. The act of correcting for your wrongdoing.
RETRIBUTION, noun. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats