comeupance
English
Noun
comeupance (plural comeupances)
- Alternative form of comeuppance
- 1990, George Sirgiovanni, An Undercurrent of Suspicion: Anti-communism in America During World War II, page 131:
- Once again, what followed was a shocking comeupance for the right-wing press.
- 2001, Oswald G. Ragatz, Reunion with Murder, page 26:
- I have a very strong personal grudge against my ex-husband, and I'd love to see him finally get his comeupance.
- 2005, Eileen Blumenthal, Puppetry: A World History, page 153:
- When a nineteenth-century English performer tried presenting a more moral puppet show, with Punch getting his comeupance, audiences would have none of it.
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