punishment

[pun·ish·ment]

Punishment is the penalty you have to pay when you're caught doing something bad. A teenager's punishment for missing her curfew might be helping her dad clean the garage.

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The act of punishing.

Noun
the act of punishing


n.
The act of punishing.

n.
Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.

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.


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.
The rewards and punishments of another life.
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.

The act of punishing.

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Usage Examples

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

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Other Usage Examples

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Evil gains work their punishment.

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