taliation

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taliation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of retaliation
    • 1702, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto XVII. The Cheat.”, in Charles Beaumont, editor, Psyche, or Love’s Mystery, […], 2nd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] University-Press, for Tho[mas] Bennet, […], →OCLC, stanza 26, page 160, column 1:
      Just Heav'n this Taliation did decree, / That Treaſon Treaſon's deadly Scourge ſhould be.
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