retributory
- a variation of retributive.
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Afghan leaders who have been the Taliban’s nemesis for the past two decades issued pleas for the group to refrain from retributory violence.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2021
“We’re sort of in that group of states that have a pretty retributory approach, especially for murder-one or murder-two,” Bergstrom said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2015
I have already begun my retributory purposes, as I may call them.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Richardson, Samuel
Again it should be said that no attempt is here made to give more than a very fragmentary description, and a few hints, of the manner in which the retributory laws of nature work.
From Elementary Theosophy by Rogers, L. W. (Louis William)
Spinoza could not regard the bad man as an object of Divine anger and a subject of retributory punishment.
From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Belloc, Hilaire
