What is the difference between "pound of flesh", "indemnity", "reprisal", "remuneration", and "redress"?
Definitions:
1) pound of flesh: A debt or punishment, especially a cruel or unreasonable one, that is harshly insisted upon. An allusion to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, in which the moneylender Shylock demands he be paid the pound of flesh promised as collateral for a loan.
2) indemnity: a sum of money paid as compensation, especially a sum exacted by a victor in war as one condition of peace.3) reprisal: an act of damage or injury against an enemy in reaction to an act of damage or injury done to you:
4) remuneration: payment for work or services
- 5) redress: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/right a https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/wrong or give https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/payment for a https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/wrong that has been done:
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xbladefate25 ) pound of flesh: A debt or punishment, especially a cruel or unreasonable one, that is harshly insisted upon. An allusion to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, in which the moneylender Shylock demands he be paid the pound of flesh promised as collateral for a loan. I don't agree.
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xbladefate25) pound of flesh: A debt or punishment, especially a cruel or unreasonable one, that is harshly insisted upon. An allusion to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, in which the moneylender Shylock demands he be paid the pound of flesh promised as collateral for a loan.
I don't agree. It is always cruel or unreasonable.
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