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Punishment
Punishment Pun"ish*ment, n.
Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment. [Colloq. or Slang]
Punishment
Punishment Pun"ish*ment, n.
1. The act of punishing.
2. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because
of a crime or offense.
I never gave them condign punishment. --Shak.
The rewards and punishments of another life.
--Locke.
3. (Law) 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.
Meaning of PUNISHMENT from wikipedia
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Punishment, commonly, is the
imposition of an
undesirable or
unpleasant outcome upon an
individual or group,
meted out by an authority—in
contexts ranging...
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Capital punishment, also
known as the
death penalty and
formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned
killing of a
person as
punishment for actual...
- A
corporal punishment or a
physical punishment is a
punishment which is
intended to
cause physical pain to a person. When it is
inflicted on minors, especially...
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Capital Punishment may also
refer to:
Capital Punishment (Big Pun album), 1998
Capital Punishment (Unit:187 album), 2003
Capital Punishment (film), a...
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Crime and
Punishment (pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform Russian: Преступление и наказание, romanized:
Prestupleniye i nakazaniye...
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corporal punishment is the
deliberate infliction of
physical pain as a
response to
undesired behavior by students. The term
corporal punishment derives...
- group.
Punishment or The
Punishment may also
refer to:
Punishment (psychology)
Capital punishment School discipline,
punishment at
school Punishment (album)...
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Field punishment is any form of
punishment used
against military personnel in the field; that is,
field punishment does not
require that the
member be...
- In the
United States,
capital punishment (also
known as the
death penalty) is a
legal penalty in 27 states,
throughout the
country at the
federal level...
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Capital punishment, also
called the
death penalty, is the state-sanctioned
killing of a
person as a
punishment for a crime. It has
historically been used...
