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noun (uncountable)
  1. retaliation
  • 1973: Simple may be fine for wartime, but politics between wars demands symmetry and a more elegant idea of justice, even to the point of masquerading, a bit decadently, as mercy. " Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Etymology: Old French, from Latin talis "such".

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