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

Usage examples of retribution.

The Vor lord was sick again, and his male victim started climbing up after him, slipping on the beslimed stonework and promising violent retribution.

Brennon was a bar brawler, not the type to hit a defenseless woman in some sort of retribution.

Nunk and his companions, perhaps the other war bureau manipleoutside the gate, keeping the brawlers on the killing ground until the war bureau fighters finished their retribution.

MacDougall alive and still keep the de Mers from retribution at the hands of the King of Scotland.

Upon the whole, the metempsychosis may be understood, as to its inmost meaning and its final issue, to be either a Development, a Revolution, or a Retribution, a Divine system of development eternally leading creatures in a graduated ascension from the base towards the apex of the creation, a perpetual cycle in the order of nature fixedly recurring by the necessities of a physical fate unalterable, unavoidable, eternal, a scheme of punishment and reward exactly fitted to the exigencies of every case, presided over by a moral Nemesis, and issuing at last in the emancipation of every purified soul into infinite bliss, when, by the upward gravitation of spirit, they shall all have been strained through the successively finer growing filters of the worlds, from the coarse grained foundation of matter to the lower shore of the Divine essence.

He knew the miscreant richly merited the threatened retribution, and yet he wished it were not impending.

However, this is expected to be short lived due to HUMINT reporting and FIF debriefs, which strongly suggest that paramilitary groups closely allied with the regime will ultimately break and run for fear of retribution from the local populace.

But it was likely that he was told it was a retribution raid, a ratissage, and not the search for half a ton of gold that was to provide a comfortable living for three senior officers after the war.

What an explication it gives of those mysteries of evil, pain, sorrow and retribution, which often wrap the innocent and the wicked in one sad fate, if we but see that no individual stands alone, but trails along with him the unfinished sequels of all ancestral experience, and, furthermore, is so bound up with his simultaneous race that each is responsible for all and all for each, and that no one can be wholly saved or safe until all are redeemed and perfected!

Adirondack and maybe Silvern and Iberiand too in what amounts to a war of retribution.

Hassan of Aleppo, its awful guardian, had triumphed and had escaped retribution.

Was it retribution that I hoped to find as I set out from Alsatia, in the midst of the deluge, in the back of a mail-coach jostling along the Strand and into Charing Cross, heading slowly westward?

He rubbed the blister that was already rising and, dodging the martial display and the towering figure of retribution, he made his way toward the Bololo entity.

And the Great Leveller rode and continues to ride on the penalty of sin, forcing its retribution in the form of death on the acts of senseless execution and coldblooded murder.

Everyone was positive the disease had been inflicted upon the poor officer in retribution by Major - de Coverley, although no one was sure how.