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talion

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The principle that punishment should be equivalent or identical to the offense committed.
  • noun The imposition of such a punishment.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A slip of a tree.
  • noun The law of retaliation, according to which the punishment inflicted corresponds in kind and degree to the injury, as an eye for an eye, or a tooth for a tooth. This mode of punishment was established by the Mosaic law (Lev. xxiv. 20).
  • noun Revenge; retaliation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Retaliation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Retaliation; retribution.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English talioun, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin tāliō, tāliōn-; see telə- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle French talion, from Latin talis ("such").

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Words with the same meaning

  1. retaliation

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  • qms commented on the word talion

    The logophile suffers a curse

    That tolerance only makes worse.

    In keeping with talion

    The sesquipedalian

    Is sentenced to writing in verse.

    October 4, 2015