talionic

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One of the chief lessons he left them wrought well for the casting out of all with which the feudal system had debased the patriarchal; and the poverty shared with the clan had powerfully helped: it was spoken against the growing talionic regard of human relations -- that, namely, the conditions of a bargain fulfilled on both sides, all is fulfilled between the bargaining parties.

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  1. Of or pertaining to the law of talion; characterized by or involving the return of like for like. The growing talionic regard of human relations—that, the conditions of a bargain fulfilled on both sides, all is fulfilled between the bargaining parties. G. MacDonald, What's Mine's Mine, p. 31.

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  • One of the chief lessons he left them wrought well for the casting out of all with which the feudal system had debased the patriarchal; and the poverty shared with the clan had powerfully helped: it was spoken against the growing talionic regard of human relations -- that, namely, the conditions of a bargain fulfilled on both sides, all is fulfilled between the bargaining parties. —  What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1
 

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