Making or bringing retribution or requital; paying back; conferring reward or punishment according to desert; retaliative.

adjective. Of or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment

adjective. Relating to retribution; retaliatory.

adjective. given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts

adjective. of or relating to or having the nature of retribution

"Now, that is what I call retributive justice; for she threw down the chair for him to stumble over, and, if he has grazed his knees, she suffers under a torn dress, and must retire until one of the maids darn up the rent."

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