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Definition of punishment
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of punishment is as below...
Punishment
(n.) A
penalty
inflicted
by a court of
justice
on a
convicted
offender
as a just
retribution,
and
incidentally
for the
purposes
of
reformation
and
prevention..
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Discipline
::
Discipline
(n.)
Severe
training,
corrective
of
faults;
instruction
by means of
misfortune,
suffering,
punishment,
etc..
Inhuman
::
Inhuman
(a.)
Characterized
by, or
attended
with,
cruelty;
as, an
inhuman
act or
punishment..
Pain
::
Pain (n.)
Punishment
suffered
or
denounced;
suffering
or evil
inflicted
as a
punishment
for
crime,
or
connected
with the
commission
of a
crime;
penalty..
Buck
::
Buck (v. t.) To
subject
to a mode of
punishment
which
consists
in tying the
wrists
together,
passing
the arms over the bent
knees,
and
putting
a stick
across
the arms and in the angle
formed
by the
knees..
Cyphonism
::
Cyphonism
(n.) A
punishment
sometimes
used by the
ancients,
consisting
in the
besmearing
of the
criminal
with
honey,
and
exposing
him to
insects.
It is still in use among some
Oriental
nations..
Denounce
::
Denounce
(v. t.) To point out as
deserving
of
reprehension
or
punishment,
etc.; to
accuse
in a
threatening
manner;
to
invoke
censure
upon; to
stigmatize..
Stock
::
Stock (n.) A frame of
timber,
with holes in which the feet, or the feet and
hands,
of
criminals
were
formerly
confined
by way of
punishment..
Imposition
::
Imposition
(n.) An extra
exercise
enjoined
on
students
as a
punishment.
Damnation
::
Damnation
(n.)
Condemnation
to
everlasting
punishment
in the
future
state,
or the
punishment
itself..
Horse
::
Horse (n.) A frame of
timber,
shaped
like a
horse,
on which
soldiers
were made to ride for
punishment..
Pardon
::
Pardon
(v. t.) The act of
pardoning;
forgiveness,
as of an
offender,
or of an
offense;
release
from
penalty;
remission
of
punishment;
absolution..
Retribution
::
Retribution
(n.)
Specifically,
reward
and
punishment,
as
distributed
at the
general
judgment..
Condemned
::
Condemned
(a.)
Pronounced
to be
wrong,
guilty,
worthless,
or
forfeited;
adjudged
or
sentenced
to
punishment,
destruction,
or
confiscation..
Evade
::
Evade (v. t.) To get away from by
artifice;
to avoid by
dexterity,
subterfuge,
address,
or
ingenuity;
to
elude;
to
escape
from
cleverly;
as, to evade a blow, a
pursuer,
a
punishment;
to evade the force of an
argument..
Ferule
::
Ferule
(n.) A flat piece of wood, used for
striking,
children,
esp. on the hand, in
punishment..
Socinianism
::
Socinianism
(n.) The
tenets
or
doctrines
of
Faustus
Socinus,
an
Italian
theologian
of the
sixteenth
century,
who
denied
the
Trinity,
the deity of
Christ,
the
personality
of the
Devil,
the
native
and total
depravity
of man, the
vicarious
atonement,
and the
eternity
of
future
punishment.
His
theory
was, that
Christ
was a man
divinely
commissioned,
who had no
existence
before
he was
conceived
by the
Virgin
Mary; that human sin was the
imitation
of
Adam's
sin, and that human
salvation
was the
imitat
Colt
::
Colt (n.) A short
knotted
rope
formerly
used as an
instrument
of
punishment
in the navy.
Baffle
::
Baffle
(v. t.) To cause to
undergo
a
disgraceful
punishment,
as a
recreant
knight..
Strappado
::
Strappado
(n.) A
military
punishment
formerly
practiced,
which
consisted
in
drawing
an
offender
to the top of a beam and
letting
him fall to the
length
of the rope, by which means a limb was often
dislocated..
Ransom
::
Ransom
(n.) A sum paid for the
pardon
of some great
offense
and the
discharge
of the
offender;
also, a fine paid in lieu of
corporal
punishment..
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