requital
Example Sentences
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This nonsense gradually infected everything and the consequence was an underestimate which subsequently bought the bitterest requital.
From Time Magazine Archive
Therefore Kant's theory of punishment as mere requital for requital's sake is a completely groundless and perverse view.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
The register of the rudeness of the strong is also full, and destined for full requital.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
And the deeds which God will thus punish deserve, on the theory of punishment as prevention, no requital.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
The conception of requital implies that of time; therefore eternal justice cannot be requital.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
