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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Retaliation \Re*tal`i*a"tion\, n.
The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like
retribution; now specifically, the return of evil for evil;
e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
God . . . takes what is done to others as done to
himself, and by promise obloges himself to full
retaliation. --Calamy.
Syn: Requital; reprisal; retribution; punishment.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
retaliation
n : action taken in return for an injury or offense [syn: {revenge}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
RETALIATION, n. The natural rock upon which is reared the Temple of
Law.
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