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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

rétorsion

. See

Verb.

]

Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back.

[Written also

retorsion

It was, however, necessary to possess some single term expressive of this intellectual

retortion

Sir W. Hamilton.

(Law)

Retaliation.

Wharton.

Noun.

The act of retorting.

retortion ‎(plural retortions)