measure for measure
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measure for measure |
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alternation, amends, atonement, balancing, battledore and shuttlecock, blow for blow, commutation, compensation, cooperation, counteraction, counterbalancing, counterchange, cross fire, defensibility, drumhead justice, dueness, equitableness, equity,
evenhandedness, exchange, expiation,
give-and-take, indemnification, indemnity, interchange, intermutation, interplay, justice, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, justness, law of
retaliation, lawfulness, legality, lex
talionis, like for like, meetness, mutual admiration, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, nemesis, offsetting, permutation, poetic justice, properness, propriety,
quid pro quo, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, recompense, rectification, redress, reparation, repayment, restitution, retaliation, retributive justice, revenge,
right, rightfulness, rightness,
rude justice, satisfaction, scales of justice, something for something, something in return, substitution, summary justice, talion, tit for tat, transposal, transposition, warrantability, warrantedness,
what is right
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Main entries similar to: measure for measure
alternation, commutation, cooperation, cross fire, equity,
exchange, give-and-take, interplay, justification, lawfulness,
legality, mutuality, nemesis, permutation, poetic justice,
propriety, quid pro quo, reciprocation, reciprocity, retaliation,
right, tit for tat, transposition
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