retribution

參見：rétribution

英語

詞源

源自拉丁語 retribuō (「償還」)。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˌɹɛtɹɪˈbjuʃən/

名詞

retribution (可數 和 不可數，複數 retributions)

1. （出於道德或報復的）懲罰，懲處
   • 1983, Richard A. Posner, The economics of justicem p.208:

     Whereas retribution focuses on the offender's wrong, retaliation focuses on the impulse of the victim (or of those who sympathize with him) to strike back at the offender.

   • 1999, Barbara Hanawalt, Medieval crime and social control, p.73:

     1. Revenge is for an injury; retribution is for a wrong.

     2. Retribution sets an internal limit to the amount of the punishment according to the seriousness of the wrong; revenge need not.

     3. Revenge is personal; the agent of retribution need have no special or personal tie to the victim of the wrong for which he exacts retribution.

     4. Revenge involves a particular emotional tone, pleasure in the suffering of another, while retribution need involve no emotional tone.

近義詞

• 另見Thesaurus:revenge

上義詞

• punishment

相關詞彙

• retributionist
• retributive
• retributionary
• retributory