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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
- Punishment is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, meted out by an authority—in contexts ranging from child...
- Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for...
- Corporal punishment or physical punishment is a punishment intended to cause physical pain to a person. It is most often practised on minors, especially...
- Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform Russian: Преступление и наказание, tr. Prestupléniye i nakazániye,...
- Capital punishment is a legal death penalty in India. It has been carried out in five instances since 1995, while a total of twenty-six executions have...
- Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the United States, currently used by 29 states, the federal government, and the military. Its existence can be...
- This is a list of methods of capital punishment, also known as execution. "North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un's executions: anti-aircraft guns, flamethrowers...
- evil souls are subjected to punitive suffering, often torture as eternal punishment after death. Religions with a linear divine history often depict ****...
- of the use of capital punishment by country. Globally, of the 195 United Nations states, 55 countries retain capital punishment, 104 countries have completely...
- School corporal punishment refers to inflicting deliberate physical and emotional pain or discomfort in response to undesired behavior by students in schools...
