Meaning of poetical justice | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The idea that in a literary work such as a poem, virtue should be rewarded and vice punished.
   uncountable
2. Synonym of poetic justice (“the fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner”).
   broadly, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“For though historical Juſtice might reſt there; yet poetical Juſtice could not be ſo content. It vvould require that the ſatisfaction be compleat and full, e're the Malefactor goes off the Stage, and nothing left to God Almighty, and another VVorld.”

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