Retribution is valid Scrabble Word

Is retribution a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is retribution valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

11 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for RETRIBUTION in dictionary:

NOUN:

retaliation, punishment
punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act
The act of retributing; repayment.
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.
Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment.
a justly deserved penalty
the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

recompense, reward

Words related to RETRIBUTION

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How to use RETRIBUTION in a sentence

It was not that she felt that a just retribution had overtaken her father, but rather that she was glad his shameful conduct had come to an end.
But even he could not escape a retribution, in spite of his exalted position and his great services.
It must fail because it overlooks that great eternal law of retribution for and continuity in evil, which is illustrated by every single history of individuals and of nations.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap, and men cannot sow avarice and oppression without reaping the harvest of retribution.
This fact alone speaks volumes, and should remind the slave-breeding Southerner of that fearful retribution which must sooner or later overtake him.
I vowed that if Gregory or anybody else was responsible I would do my share toward bringing on him retribution.
Every evil deed, however quickly it may hide its traces, is overtaken by some retribution.
Now, however, as they have failed to appreciate this loving-kindness and these bounties, they have been, and will be, afflicted with the retribution which their acts must entail.
Finally, the resurrection, judgment, and retribution of good and evil are set forth in great detail.
Lo! I fear for you the retribution of a painful Day.

But in this life virtue does not always bear its own reward nor is evil always followed by retribution.
Also the theory of punishment is different and inspired by the doctrine of Karma, namely, that every evil deed will bring its own retribution.
And so the Poles are crushed! what a piteous horror! Will there never come a day of retribution for this! Mrs.
A righteous retribution had overtaken the Romans for their love of the cruel sports of the amphitheatre.
It may not come soon, but the retribution will come.
Morally, then, he was little better than a murderer, and that he should have tumbled into the pit he conceived that he dug for Andre-Louis was a poetic retribution.
The stream of events, having its fountains in iniquity, has its end in retribution.
IT WAS THE CRIME CLUB! CHAPTER XV RETRIBUTION His brain seemed to whirl, staggered as by some gigantic, ghastly mockery.
The Indians appear to have no idea of a retribution beyond this life.
He had seen a sword in the sky and had heard voices proclaiming mercy to the righteous and retribution to the wicked.
Conscience stood appalled in the sight of Retribution.
A regretted shadow is in organisation and distribution and retribution.
It may seem a just retribution that he should have met with such a tragic fate, but those who knew him in Natal felt nothing but regret for his loss.
Punishment, it is said, is not inflicted on the offender as a retribution for his misdeeds, it is inflicted for the purpose of protecting society against its enemies.
For on Him have met all the converging rays of the divine retribution, and burnt the penal fire into His very heart.
The infliction of such a wife as Madame Blanche has been is but righteous retribution.

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