talion

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Calabria to the Alps, and well may it have filled the handsome weakling who was the object of its cruel ridicule with a talion fury.

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  1. noun A punishment identical to the offense, as the death penalty for murder.

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  • Trailer: 'Les sept jours du talion' —  The Cultural Post
  • Calabria to the Alps, and well may it have filled the handsome weakling who was the object of its cruel ridicule with a talion fury. —  The Life of Cesare Borgia
  • Companions were instant with the plaintiffs to accept the bloodwit and win the thanks of the folk, but they refused and would nothing but the talion. —  The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
  • His hostess saw these movements with satisfaction: he had appeased her personal indignation, but her soul was not hospitable towards him, and the devil in her was gratified with the sight of his discomposure: she hankered after talion, not waited on penitence. —  Warlock o' Glenwarlock
  • The interval between overture and finale is, as has been said or hinted, uncommonly lively, and for once, not only in the final retribution, Paul has distributed the _peine du talion_ pretty equally between his personages. —  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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  1. Middle English talioun, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin tāliō, tāliōn-; see telə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French talion = Spanish talion = Portuguese talião = Italian taglione, from Latin talio(n-), a punishment equal and of similar nature to an injury sustained, from talis, such, such like. Cf. taliation, retaliate.
  2. Middle English, from Old French taillon, a cutting, from Latin talea, a cutting, scion: see tail.
 

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