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発音

• IPA: /ˌɹɛt.ɹɪˈbju.ʃən/
• 韻: -uːʃən

名詞

retribution (countable and uncountable, plural retributions)

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

     Whereas retribution focuses on the offender's 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, page 73:

     1. Revenge is for an injury; retribution is 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.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:revenge

上位語

• punishment

関連する語

• retributionist
• retributive
• retributionary
• retributory
• retribute