Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-TAL-I-A'TION
RE-TAL'I-A-TINGRE-TAL'I-A-TIVE
RE-TAL-I-A'TION, n.
- The return of like for like; the doing that to another which he has done to us; requital of evil. – South.
- In a good sense, return of good for good. God takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise obliges himself to full retaliation. – Calamy. [This, according to modern usage, is harsh.]
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