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Definition: RETRIBUTE |
RETRIBUTETransitive verb1. To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute just punishment to a criminal. |
Date "RETRIBUTE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
Etymology: Retribute \Re*trib"ute\, transitive verb. [Latin expression retributus, past participle ofretribuere to retribute; pref re- tribuere to bestow, assign, pay. See Tribute.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Payment | Disgorge, make repayment; repay, refund, reimburse, retribute; make compensation;. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And thus, in the state of nature, one man comes by a power over another; but yet no absolute or arbitrary power, to use a criminal, when he has got him in his hands, according to the passionate heats, or boundless extravagancy of his own will; but only to retribute to him, so far as calm reason and conscience dictate, what is proportionate to his transgression, which is so much as may serve for reparation and restraint: for these two are the only reasons, why one man may lawfully do harm to another, which is that we call punishment. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "RETRIBUTE" (pronounced 'Re*trib"ute'): redistribute. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: butterier. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-r-r-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: bitterer, rebutter. | |
-2 letters: bruiter, burette, reutter, ruttier, tribute, utterer. | |
-3 letters: better, bitter, burier, butter, retire, ritter, rubier, terret, territ, triter, turbit, turret, ureter. | |
-4 letters: beret, biter, brier, britt, bruit, brute, buret, butte, rebut, retie, titer, titre, tribe, trier, trite, truer, tuber, tutee, uteri, utter. | |
-5 letters: beer, beet, bier, birr, bite, bitt, bree, brie, brit, brut. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-i-r-r-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: reattribute, retributive. | |
+3 letters: reattributed, reattributes, redistribute, turbidimeter. | |
+4 letters: bitterbrushes, butterfingers, interruptible, redistributed, redistributes, retributively, subliterature, turbidimeters, turboelectric. | |
+5 letters: butterfingered, redistributive, subliteratures, turbidimetries. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 54 52 49 42 55 54 45 |
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