Synonyms:
retribution, requital
Meaning: a justly deserved penalty
Synonyms:
retribution
Meaning: the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
Usage examples
And the retribution was swift.
"It's the law of retribution. Poor Peggy will be sorry for this tomorrow."
The miseries of the Hurons were lighted up with a brief gleam of joy; but it behooved them to make a timely retreat from their island before the Iroquois came to exact a bloody retribution.
He succeeded at the time, but the hour of retribution approaches, and he will be obliged to disgorge his winnings, to throw aside his false dice, and to end his days in some retirement, where he may curse his madness at his leisure; for repentance is a virtue with which his heart is likely to remain forever unacquainted.