noun. Punishment administered in return for a wrong committed.

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

noun. 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.

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

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

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

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

noun. The act of retributing; repayment.

noun. 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.

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

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

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

noun. a justly deserved penalty

noun. 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  retribution theory  

retributionist  retributive  

correction  penalty  rectification  retaliation  revenge  

Aleutian  Andalusian  Confucian  Constitution  Lilliputian  

atonement  betrayal  calamity  catastrophe  chastisement  

affliction  amends  atonement  avengement  avenging