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Attrition :: Attrition (n.) Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition.

Remissful :: Remissful (a.) Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement.

Cart :: Cart (v. t.) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

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

Reprieve :: Reprieve (v. t.) To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days..

Blanketing :: Blanketing (n.) The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.

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

Furnace :: Furnace (n.) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline..

Spare :: Spare (a.) To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to..

Absolve :: Absolve (v. t.) To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment..

Favor :: Favor (n.) Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.

Obnoxious :: Obnoxious (a.) Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy.

Squeak :: Squeak (v. i.) To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.

Punishable :: Punishable (a.) Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses..

Punition :: Punition (n.) Punishment.

Reprobate :: Reprobate (a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved..

Indulgence :: Indulgence (n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory..

Mulct :: Mulct (v. t.) Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline..

Condemned :: Condemned (a.) Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation..

Prosecute :: Prosecute (v. t.) To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment, before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot..

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