Noun

• S: (n) retribution, requital (a justly deserved penalty)
• S: (n) retribution (the act of correcting for your wrongdoing)
• S: (n) vengeance, retribution, payback (the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life) "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"