noun

• The law of retaliation, whereby a punishment resembles the offence committed in kind and degree.

  ‘the lex talionis of feud violence and blood money’

  More example sentences

  • ‘He defends a strict application of the lex talionis (law of retribution) - that is, he holds to equality both in proportion and in kind of harm inflicted.’
  • ‘This was indeed the purpose of the lex talionis.’

  Synonyms

  revenge, vengeance, reprisal, retribution, requital, recrimination, an eye for an eye, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, getting even, redress, repayment, payback