Adjective : retributive justice.    From Dictionary.com. 

In violent hands, but deadly sure and retributory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

Were even the gods not exempt from retributory justice?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

I have already begun my retributory purposes, as I may call them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

From the day when, as young men, both had been aspirants for the imperial throne of Germany and Francis had suffered defeat, the latter had assiduously devoted himself to the retributory task of gaining the ascendancy over his successful rival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

Spinoza could not regard the bad man as an object of Divine anger and a subject of retributory punishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference

Imogen's figure, bereaved of her father, of her lover, desolate, amazed, rose before her and, behind it, the hovering, retributory gaze of her husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fountain Sealed] Reference

With us are no retributory superstitions, by which a foundation of charity compensates, through ages, to the poor, for the rapine and injustice of a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)] Reference

It is not only a retributory and destructive fire, but a disciplinary and creative process, whose aim is the salvation, through unification, of the entire planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promised Day Is Come] Reference

He recognises a principle of right beyond the ken of man; but though he once said that this principle was conscious of his existence and his work on earth, it never entered his head to endow it with anything like retributory powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historic China, and other sketches] Reference

Sometimes, indeed, the mere necessities of dispute carried me, before I was aware of my own imprudence, so far up the staircase of Babel, that my brother was shaken for a moment in the infinity of his contempt; and before long, when my superiority in some bookish accomplishments displayed itself, by results that could not be entirely dissembled, mere foolish human nature forced me into some trifle of exultation at these retributory triumphs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiographical Sketches] Reference

(it seems to me) be inviting an exactly retributory course be followed when he leaves office.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy] Reference

Samuel informs them of the Lord's displeasure and predicts the retributory evils that will come upon them through the exactions of the future king (I.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

"pacific penetration," but the matter was kept quiet as a little premature, since in Europe the coast is not quite clear enough yet for retributory measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond] Reference

And certainly not retributory, no!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcotte resigns from the Edwards campaign.] Reference

There are two sorts of retributory punishments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Answered Questions] Reference