retribution

Words with a similar base: retribution

'retribution'

[retribution.n.01] as in: a justly deserved penalty

'retribution'

[retribution.n.02] as in: the act of correcting for your wrongdoing

'retribution'

[vengeance.n.01] as in: the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; --Romans 12:19; --James Garfield

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Examples:
Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord
For vengeance I would do nothing.

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This nation is too great to look for mere revenge
he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him
the swiftness of divine retribution