Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Retribution has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
a justly deserved penalty
the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
"Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"
"For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"
"he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"
"the swiftness of divine retribution"
Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.