retribute

Example Sentences

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It's all very well to insist that there's nothing to retribute," ran a passage in one of the letters, "but the poor fellow is saying one thing with his lips and another in his soul.

From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by King, Basil

Ena seemed to look on it at first as a retribution, but Archie insists that there never was anything to retribute.

From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by King, Basil