·noun Any act of retaliation.
II. Reprisal ·noun Anything taken from an enemy in retaliation.
III. Reprisal ·noun The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity.
IV. Reprisal ·noun The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity.