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requital

noun as in revenge

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And my quest for requital was about to start.

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The coney was like hooey And squealed our requitals.

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With the wrongs, the crimes, the vices of centuries to avenge, they dreamed that the day of requital was come; and the dream had turned clods into devils.

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And the deeds which God will thus punish deserve, on the theory of punishment as prevention, no requital.

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The idea came from the Crito, where Socrates compels Crito to own that we must do evil to no one—not even by way of requital.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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