"retributionary" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1877, Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham, The Congregational Quarterly, page 567",
          "text": "Punishment, moreover, loses all its retributionary character [...]",
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          "ref": "1984, Charles F. Abel, Knute Martin, Frank H. Marsh, Punishment and Restitution: A Restitutionary Approach to Crime and the Criminal, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 4",
          "text": "It might be thought, for example, that a rehabilitation approach simply costs more in both time and money than a retributionary approach. But while retributionary approaches may be a boon to the average taxpayer, they are a bane to ...",
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          "ref": "2004, Ian Marsh, John Cochrane, Gaynor Melville, Criminal Justice: An Introduction to Philosophies, Theories and Practice, Routledge, page 17",
          "text": "Of course, the 'just deserts' retributionary approach does not mean the punishment should be exactly like the crime; it means that there should be equivalencies of seriousness of punishment.",
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        "Being or relating to retribution; retributive; retaliatory."
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