Definition of Punishments. Meaning of Punishments. Synonyms of Punishments

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Definition of Punishments

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 Punishments from wikipedia

- penalty. Corporal punishment refers to punishments in which physical pain is intended to be inflicted upon the transgressor. Punishments may be judged as...
- of the Five Punishments varied. Before the Western Han dynasty Emperor Han Wendi (r. 180–157 BC),[clarification needed] the punishments involved tattooing...
- Crime and Punishment in America, p. 416 (SAGE 2012). Ryan, Meghan. "Does the Eighth Amendment Punishments Clause Prohibit Only Punishments that Are Both...
- Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments is an adventure mystery video game in the Sherlock Holmes series developed by Frogwares in 2014 and distributed...
- justice system. Communal punishments for wrongdoing generally included blood money compensation by the wrongdoer, corporal punishment, shunning, banishment...
- third-party punishments are exhibited in all examined po****tions, though the magnitude of the punishments varies greatly, and that costly punishment co-varies...
- forms of punishment. Historically shame punishments and exile have also been used as forms of censure. The most publicly visible form of punishment in the...
- countries today. Punishments such as paddling, foot whipping or different forms of flagellation have been commonplace methods of corporal punishment within prisons...
- actual words were firstly illegall and cruell Punishments and secondly cruell and unusuall Punishments) were first used in the English Bill of Rights...
- On Crimes and Punishments (Italian: Dei delitti e delle pene [dei deˈlitti e ddelle ˈpeːne]) is a treatise written by Cesare Beccaria in 1764. The treatise...