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Punishment :: Punishment (n.) The act of punishing.

Correction :: Correction (n.) The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement..

Erastian :: Erastian (n.) One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the State..

Reprobation :: Reprobation (n.) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment..

Annihilationist :: Annihilationist (n.) One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

Amenable :: Amenable (a.) Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc..

Vindicatory :: Vindicatory (a.) Inflicting punishment; avenging; punitory.

Damnably :: Damnably (adv.) In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment..

Condemnation :: Condemnation (n.) The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture..

Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To injure, as by beating; to pommel..

Imposition :: Imposition (n.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.

Avenge :: Avenge (v. t.) To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.

Plitt :: Plitt (n.) An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia..

Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To pass or spend, as time, esp. time of punishment; as, to serve a term in prison..

Swinge :: Swinge (v. t.) To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.

Chabuk :: Chabuk (n.) A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment..

Penality :: Penality (n.) The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment.

Capitally :: Capitally (adv.) In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally..

Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) To use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to abuse one's powers, one's patience..

Persecute :: Persecute (v. t.) To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship..

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