Lexicographical Neighbors of Retributively
Literary usage of Retributively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Methodist Review (1884)
"Animals were held morally unclean, yet not retributively so. And when we speak
of created unholiness, we have exemplified it in the case of Adam as a dis- ..."
2. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1847)
"In neither case, however, whether government punishes retributively, or for the
sake of reformation, or of prevention, would it be bound to visit with ..."
3. Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God by Horace Bushnell (1858)
"... we mean bj it nothing more than that the causes included in pure nature are
working now more or less retributively, pain' fully, ..."
4. The pulpit commentary, ed. by H.D.M. Spence and J.S. Exell. nT= edited by Henry Donald M. Spence- Jones (1887)
"What is at first the assertion of independence toward God, will become, retributively,
hindrance and bondage in complete subjugation and environment by God. ..."
5. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by William Randolph Hearst (1851)
"One has no right to crash and mash it in a pit on the other side of a wall, even
with the chance of being retributively kicked to death in its company. ..."
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