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measure for measure

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Main Entry: measure for measure
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: equally

Synonyms:

amends, atonement, compensation, eye for an eye, indemnification, indemnity, lex talionis, meed, payback, quid pro quo, reciprocity, recompense, rectification, reparation, restitution, retaliation, tit for tat, tooth for a tooth
Main Entry: revenge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: retaliation for wrong, grievance

Synonyms:

animus, attack, avenging, avengment, counterblow, counterinsurgency, counterplay, eye for an eye, fight, getting even, ill will, implacability, malevolence, measure for measure, rancor, repayment, reprisal, requital, retribution, return, ruthlessness, satisfaction, sortie, spitefulness, tit for tat, vengeance, vengefulness, vindictiveness
Notes: revenge is personal and justice is societal

Antonyms:

forgiveness, pardon, sympathy
Main Entry: eye for an eye
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: retaliation for a wrong

Synonyms:

avenging, getting even, measure for measure, payback, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, tit for tat, tooth for a tooth, vengeance, vindication
Main Entry: quid pro quo
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something for something

Synonyms:

equal exchange, equal substitution, equivalent, eye for an eye, like for like, measure for measure, something in return, substitute, tit for tat, trade-off
Related Words
Main Entry: revenge
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
ruthless, avenging, immitigable, implacable, inexorable, pitiless, rancorous, rankling, remorseless, revengeful, rigorous, stony, unforgiving, unrelenting, vengeful, vindictive
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Revenge.
Category: 2. Retrospective Sympathetic Affections

Synonyms:

-nouns
revenge, revengement; vengeance; avengement, avengeance, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation [more]; day of reckoning., rancor, vindictiveness, implacability; malevolence; ruthlessness., avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides.
-verbs
revenge, avenge; vindicate; take one's revenge, have one's revenge; breathe revenge, breathe vengeance; wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger., have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a rod in pickle., keep the wound green; harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling; bear malice; rankle, rankle in the breast.
-adjectives
revengeful, vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless; ruthless, rigorous, avenging., unforgiving, unrelenting; inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable; relentless, remorseless., aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus; rankling; immitigable.
-phrases
manet ciratrix, manet alid mente repostum; dies irae dies illa; "in high vengeance there is noble scorn" [G. Eliot]; inhumanum verbum est ultio [Seneca); malevolus animus abditos dentes habet [Syrus]; "now infidel I have thee on the hip" [Merchant
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