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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
retortion/rɪˈtɔːʃ(ə)n/

▶noun (in international law) retaliation by a state on another's subjects.

– origin C16 (in the sense ‘bending or turning backwards’): from retort1, perh. on the pattern of contortion.

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