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Definition of Retributory
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or having the nature of retribution. "Retributive justice demands an eye for an eye"
Similar to: Punitive, Punitory
Derivative terms: Retaliate, Retaliate
2. Adjective. Given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts. "Retributive justice"
Definition of Retributory
1. Adjective. Of or relating to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Retributory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retributory
Literary usage of Retributory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Immortality of the Soul and the Final Condition of the Wicked, Carefully by Robert Wharton Landis (1859)
"This, which the utilitarians seem unable rightly to understand, admits both the
intrinsic demerit of the criminal and that punishment is retributory. ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1871)
"... giving retributory damages. For these reasons, I concur ia thinking that there
ia no ground for disturbing the verdict. Rule discharged. ..."
3. The Autobiography of Satan by John Relly Beard (1872)
"God's retributory providence is ... But, in the mind of Christ, that retributory
providence was ..."
4. The Autobiography of Satan by John Relly Beard (1872)
"God's retributory providence is co-extensive with his own existence, and successive
as the lapse of the minutes, hours, days, years, centuries, ..."
5. Punishment and Reformation: An Historical Sketch of the Rise of the by Frederick Howard Wines (1919)
"The motive of retributory punishment is the desire to obtain indemnity for the
... retributory punishment is supposed to be an effort to adjust and close an ..."
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