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Definition of Retributions
1. retribution [n] - See also: retribution
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retributions
Literary usage of Retributions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Taoism by James Legge (1891)
"CHAPTER V. ON THE TRACTATE OF ACTIONS AND THEIR retributions. I. The contrast is
great between the style of the Tao Teh A'ing and the Books of A'wang-jze ..."
2. A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects by Charles Simmons (1852)
"retributions OF PROVIDENCE. Retribution belongs to God only. Henry. ... Ib.
The retributions of Providence will be as overwhelming as the practice of sin is ..."
3. A View of the Principal Deistical Writers that Have Appeared in England in by John Leland (1837)
"... is only imputed to them by a consequence which they expressly deny and disavow.
LETTER XXXIII. The Christian Doctrine of future retributions vindicated. ..."
4. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"Reign of Terror at the Capital. — Mr. Sumner's Three Years' Illness. — Recovery,
Illustrious Career.—Death of Brooks and His Allies.—Time's retributions. ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1845)
"the human race by the blood of Christ, and the retributions of the life to come.
He saw the face of Vladimir agitated and convulsed, (for the heavy sins of ..."
6. Italy Under Victor Emmanuel: A Personal Narrative by Carlo Arrivabene (1862)
"... Assassinations of 1849 explained— Fearful retributions—A Secret Society at
Cesena—The Dominican Inquisition—The Mortara Case—Father ..."
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