Retribution vs. Revenge — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Retribution and Revenge
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Definitions
Retribution
Punishment administered in return for a wrong committed.
Revenge
Revenge is defined as the act of committing a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. Francis Bacon described revenge as a kind of "wild justice" that "does...
Retribution
(Theology) Punishment or reward distributed in a future life based on performance in this one.
Revenge
To inflict punishment in return for (injury or insult).
Retribution
Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.
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Revenge
(Archaic) To seek or take vengeance for (oneself or another person); avenge.
Retribution
The act of retributing; repayment.
In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly.
Revenge
The act of taking vengeance for injuries or wrongs; retaliation
Took revenge on her tormentors.
Retribution
That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or wrong.
All who have their reward on earth, . . . Naught seeking but the praise of men, here findFit retribution, empty as their deeds.
Revenge
A desire for revenge; spite or vindictiveness
He did it out of revenge.
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Retribution
Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment.
It is a strong argument for a state of retribution hereafter, that in this world virtuous persons are very often unfortunate, and vicious persons prosperous.
Revenge
An opportunity to retaliate, as by a return sports match after a defeat
After the loss, he demanded that he be given his revenge.
Retribution
A justly deserved penalty
Revenge
Something done in retaliation, especially a defeat of a rival who has been victorious.
Retribution
The act of correcting for your wrongdoing
Revenge
Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.
Indifference is the sweetest revenge.
When I left my wife, she tried to set fire to the house in revenge.
Retribution
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
For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge
He swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him
The swiftness of divine retribution
Revenge
A win by a previous loser.
Revenge
(transitive) To take revenge for (a particular harmful action) or on behalf of (its victim); to avenge.
Arsenal revenged their loss to Manchester United last time with a 5–0 drubbing this time.
Revenge
To take one's revenge (on or upon someone).
Revenge
To take vengeance; to revenge itself.
Revenge
To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; - followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.
To revenge the death of our fathers.
The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.
Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.
Revenge
To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
Revenge
To take vengeance; - with
Revenge
The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior.
Revenge
The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.
Revenge now goesTo lay a complot to betray thy foes.
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.
Revenge
Action taken in return for an injury or offense
Revenge
Take revenge for a perceived wrong;
He wants to avenge the murder of his brother
