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Definition of Retaliatory
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or having the nature of retribution. "Retributive justice demands an eye for an eye"
Similar to: Punitive, Punitory
Derivative terms: Retaliate, Retaliate
Definition of Retaliatory
1. a. Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.
Definition of Retaliatory
1. Adjective. Relating to or part of a retaliation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Retaliatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retaliatory
Literary usage of Retaliatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Commercial Legislation Before 1789 by Albert Anthony Giesecke (1910)
"retaliatory Acts. The colonies did not often find it necessary to impose
discriminating or retaliatory duties upon goods from neighboring colonies. ..."
2. Law of Foreign Corporations: A Discussion of the Principles of Private by William Law Murfree (1893)
"retaliatory LEGISLATION. SECTION. 126. Validity — Not Unconstitutional as Delegating
Legislative Power. 127. Same—Nor as Denying Equal Protection of the ..."
3. History of Europe, from the Fall of Napoleon, in 1815, to the Accession of by Archibald Alison (1854)
"Under this system the trade of Great Britain was carried XIX' on for a hundred
and fifty years, without other nations 1823' having attempted any retaliatory ..."
4. Annual Cyclopedia of Insurance in the United States (1919)
"Thirty-nine states inflict retaliatory penalties on the companies of other ...
retaliatory or reciprocal laws are now in force in the following states: ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Life and Accident Insurance: Including Benefit by Frederick Hampden Bacon (1917)
"retaliatory Legislation.—Many States have in their insurance laws, prescribing
the terms upon which foreign corporations are allowed to do business within ..."
6. Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations by William Meade Fletcher (1920)
"retaliatory constitutional or statutory provisions. In a number of states the
legislatures have enacted statutes of a retaliatory nature for the purpose of ..."
7. Leading Cases on International Law by Lawrence Boyd Evans (1922)
"retaliatory MEASURES. THE FOX AND OTHERS. ... I have not observed, however, that
these orders in council, in their retaliatory character, ..."
8. Leading Cases on International Law by Lawrence Boyd Evans (1922)
"retaliatory MEASURES. THE FOX AND OTHERS. ... in their retaliatory character,
have been described in the argument as at all repugnant to the law of nations, ..."
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