Punishment
['pʌnɪʃm(ə)nt] or ['pʌnɪʃmənt]
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Chastisement, correction, discipline, penalty.
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Examples
- He accepted his punishment with the toughest stoicism. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Forgive my offence, for it carries its punishment with it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His punishment had impressed him with no sense of shame, and he did not experience that feeling on encountering his chastiser. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Where the punishment is excessive, it is frequently necessary to prefer impunity. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- If you err wilfully, I shall devise a proportionate punishment. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Because of our mobility and because we did not have to stay afterwards to take the punishment we never knew how anything really ended, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We are working at capital punishment. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What a miserable little poltroon had fear, engendered of unjust punishment, made of me in those days! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girl--she looked thirteen or upwards. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The commandant said the punishment would be heavy; when asked how heavy? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Is not all punishment inflicted beyond the merit of the offence, so much punishment of innocence? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Damages, gentlemen--heavy damages is the only punishment with which you can visit him; the only recompense you can award to my client. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He knew there would be people clamoring for the punishment of the ex-Confederate president, for high treason. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He has repented it in sackcloth and ashes, Robert Moore, as you may well believe when you see his punishment (here she pointed to her children). Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But while I endured punishment and pain in their defence with the spirit of an hero, I claimed as my reward their praise and obedience. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The Frenchman is for proportioning punishments to offences. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He doesn't care much about the philanthropic side of things; punishments, and that kind of thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He despises me, I thought; but he shall learn that I despise him, and hold in equal contempt his punishments and his clemency. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In the past it has been an armory of platitudes or a forecast of punishments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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