Retribution vs Payback - What's the difference?
retribution | payback |
Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.
*1983 , Richard A. Posner, The economics of justice m p.208:
*:Whereas retribution focuses on the offender's wrong, retaliation focuses on the impulse of the victim (or of those who sympathize with him) to strike back at the offender.
* 1999 , , Medieval crime and social control , p.73:
*:1. Revenge is for an injury; retribution is for a wrong.
*:2. Retribution sets an internal limit to the amount of the punishment according to the seriousness of the wrong; revenge need not.
*:3. Revenge is personal; the agent of retribution need have no special or personal tie to the victim of the wrong for which he exacts retribution.
*:4. Revenge involves a particular emotional tone, pleasure in the suffering of another, while retribution need involve no emotional tone.
(uncountable) An act of revenge.
(countable) A form of recompense.
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As nouns the difference between retribution and payback
is that retribution is remuneration, reward while payback is (uncountable) an act of revenge.retribution
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(wikipedia payback)Noun
(en-noun)- They beat us last year, so this year's win was payback .