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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The rewarding of virtue and the punishment of vice, often in an especially appropriate or ironic manner.
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- noun The
rewarding ofvirtue , and thepunishment ofvice , especially in anironic manner
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- noun an outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically)
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slumry commented on the word poetic justice
I know this word mainly in its ironic sense.
June 17, 2007