Performed after successful retaliation has occured, or as a final follow-up to completed pretaliation. It places emphasis on the act itself an carries with it the the unspoken threat, "Remember this, so I don't have to repeat myself again."
Mary pretaliated the divorce proceedings by stabbing her husband twelve times, but her postaliation, by setting fire to the family home he was awarded in the settlement, is what landed her ten years in prison.
by dangerboy2012 October 10, 2009