Satisfaction vs Reprisal - What's the difference?
satisfaction | reprisal | Related terms |
A fulfillment of a need or desire.
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The pleasure obtained by such fulfillment.
*(Henry David Thoreau) (1817-1862)
*:This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction .
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction , looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
The source of such gratification.
A reparation for an injury or loss.
A vindication for a wrong suffered.
An act of retaliation.
(archaic) Something taken from an enemy in retaliation.
(archaic) The act of taking something from an enemy by way of retaliation or indemnity.
* Macaulay
Satisfaction is a related term of reprisal.
As nouns the difference between satisfaction and reprisal
is that satisfaction is a fulfillment of a need or desire while reprisal is an act of retaliation.satisfaction
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Noun
(en noun)reprisal
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Noun
(en noun)- debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place
