Penalties
[penəltiz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Penalty
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To dream that you have penalties imposed upon you, foretells that you will have duties that will rile you and find you rebellious. To pay a penalty, denotes sickness and financial loss. To escape the payment, you will be victor in some contest.
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Examples
- Let his fortune be what it will, whether he is or is not able to pay those heavy penalties, the law means to ruin him completely. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If mine exacts its pains and penalties all round, so must hers, I suppose. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I was not allowed to call him uncle, under the severest penalties. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I foresee, in spite of the penalties which it exacts from me, that I shall have to return to the opium for the hundredth time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My immediate comrade and I talked in an undertone about quarantine laws and their penalties, but we found nothing cheering in the subject. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But the penalties of smuggling must arise in proportion to the temptation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The educational equivalents of this doctrine in the uses made of pleasurable rewards and painful penalties are only too obvious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The prohibition, notwithstanding all the penalties which guard it, does not prevent the exportation of wool. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In 1910 the American Banker estimated that there were 1,198 corporations with 8,110 subsidiaries liable to all the penalties of the Sherman Act. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Daniel Doyce faced his condition with its pains and penalties attached to it, and soberly worked on for the work's sake. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- These, said Er, were the penalties and retributions, and there were blessings as great. Plato. The Republic.
- In statecraft the penalties and rewards are tremendous. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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