comeupance in English
noun
1
a punishment or fate that someone deserves.
he got his comeuppance
noun
- just desertsjust punishmentdueretributionrequitalwhat's coming to one
- comeupancedeserts
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1. Comeuppance (n.) also comeupance, "one's deserts, reversal or punishment that one deserves," 1859, presumably it is rooted in the same notion in the verbal phrase come up "present oneself for judgment before a tribunal" (see come + up (adv.)) + -ance.