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retributory

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or having the nature of retribution
    retributive justice demands an eye for an eye
  2. given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts
    retributive justice

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  • And when Dr. Martineau talks of the "natural penalties for guilt," and adds that "sin being there, it would be simply monstrous that there should be no suffering and would fully justify the despair which now raises its sickly cry of complaint against the retributory wretchedness of human transgression" (_Study_ II., p. 106), the reply is that there are no such things as "_natural_ penalties for guilt. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative
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