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countable and uncountable, plural reprisals
An act of retaliation. examples
(archaic) Something taken from an enemy in retaliation.
(archaic) The act of taking something from an enemy by way of retaliation or indemnity. quotations
debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place
1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans