What is "retributions"

Usage examples of "retributions".

More importantly, though, he modified their bracers to provide them with missile weapons capable of visiting accurate and deadly retributions on snipers.

Of piety and impiety to gods and parents, and of murderers, there were retributions other and greater far which he described.

These, said Er, were the penalties and retributions, and there were blessings as great.

They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance: Thus, in the soul of man there is a justice whose retributions are instant and entire.

Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of the divine justice.

Considering the wrath of God and the retributions dealt by his angels as depicted in the Scriptures, one would think that there would be the possibility for any number of stories using this material.