retributive justice demands an eye for an eye. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
retributive justice. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : retributive justice. From Dictionary.com.
She thought she saw clearly, that their unnatural bereavement was a blow dealt in retributive justice; but she found it not in her heart to exult or rejoice over them. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828] Reference
Such is the notion of retributive justice in the Highlands. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Although Lewis notes that some people object to the idea of retributive punishment, retribution is the only thing that makes sure that punishment is just. From Wordnik.com. [dangerous idea] Reference
But if you want to treat Israel as just another nation-state engaged in retributive ethnic cleansing, that’s just fine, as long as you’re honest about it. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Gaza and Just War] Reference
That some kind of retributive justice holds things to the right order is indicated in. From Wordnik.com. [CAUSATION] Reference
American, he believes in the manifest destiny of Russia, and looks forward to the not distant time when, with a kind of retributive justice, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
My hoe becomes an instrument of retributive justice. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature] Reference
Justice! slow, but still sure and retributive justice!. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
Aaron looked the least mite retributive, as he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
In doing so, he's sounding Nixonian: harsh, retributive. From Wordnik.com. [Now, The Volvo Republicans] Reference
Such were the awful dispensations of retributive justice. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Sir Donald chafes at slow processes of retributive justice. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Reply Obj. 2: The punishments of this life are medicinal rather than retributive. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
By the action of retributive fate the point of the weapon pierced the chest of Kosuké. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Talk about retributive justice, this is the most direct piece of retribution I ever heard of. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference
A spirit of retributive justice had been stirred up, which awed and intimidated the ruling compact. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Yet, when interpreted in this broadest meaning, retributive justice loses all ethical significance. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Not having his retributive zeal to support her in this trial, she brooded more over the recent past. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Passive acceptance of her predicament -- perhaps indeed a retributive feeling of its fitness for her folly. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
The penalties which follow a violation of the law of chastity are found to be severe and swiftly retributive. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
There marched the retributive justice of the nation -- 'carrying the flag and keeping step to the music of the Union.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
In the history of nations, as of individuals, there is often singular retributive mercy as well as retributive justice. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met] Reference
Thus does the retributive principle of temperance put the rod in pickle for those who would fool with its beneficent laws. From Wordnik.com. [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference
Here are no expressions of malice, no invocations even of God's retributive justice, not a complaint of suffering wrongfully!. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Later, of course, when the gods retreated into the background of human life, retributive justice was conceived more abstractly. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
The people, shocked at the removal of the Druidical works, predicted retributive justice to those who disturbed the sacred relics. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
But France, which continually paid for all those fearful triumphs in her blood, was still to suffer a final and retributive punishment. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
This is always true in life, and Shakespeare holds the mirror up to nature -- but is it consistent with the theory of retributive justice?. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
As Christians, we already know the compassionate response to addiction is far more successful as a road to healing than the retributive one. From Wordnik.com. [James Clark: Why Marijuana Decriminalization Should Be a Christian Issue] Reference
And it does not mean trying to lay out the fine points of retributive justice to a 2-year-old who just shoved the playmate who "pushed me first!". From Wordnik.com. [Learning Right From Wrong] Reference
The accumulated anger that was bubbling inside me channeled into a retributive fist that smashed into your mouth, knocking all but three of your teeth out. From Wordnik.com. [When You Don't Believe] Reference
Some criminals can be future assets to society while incarcerated, or can at least engage in retributive activity that may help to heal the victim or family. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the Magazine] Reference
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