divine retribution• If California fell into the ocean, would it be divine retribution for making movies like this?• The boy's parents believe his illness is divine retribution for their sins.• The Four Horse Men of the Apocalypse apparently felt it inappropriate to arrive as a messenger of divine retribution.• Another piece of divine retribution for all those hours spent ticking others off came relatively recently.• It is, I suppose, divine retribution for the treatment your whiteness receives in certain doctors' surgeries.
Originretribution
(1300-1400)Late Latinretributio, from Latinretribuere“to pay back”