Definizione monolingua

retribution

retribution (plural retributions)

1. Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.
   • 1983, Richard A. Posner, The economics of justice, page 208:

     Whereas retribution focuses on the offenders wrong, retaliation focuses on the impulse of the victim (or of those who sympathize with him) to strike back at the offender.

   • 1999, Barbara Hanawalt, Medieval crime and social control, pg. 73

   1. Revenge is for an injury; retribution for a wrong.

   2. Retribution sets an internal limit to the amount of the punishment according to the seriousness of the wrong; revenge need not.

   3. Revenge is personal; the agent of retribution need have no special or personal tie to the victim of the wrong for which he exacts retribution.

   4. Revenge involves a particular emotional tone, pleasure in the suffering of another, while retribution need involve no emotional tone.

Definizione dizionario retribution

	vendetta
	Rivalsa o ritorsione per un'offesa, un danno o altro torto subiti.
	Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.

castigo

dolore

pena

punizione

retribuzione

ricompensa

rivincita

Altri significati:

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

Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance

(divine) punishment