Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Punishment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Punishment.

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  • noun obsolete punishment

Etymologies

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Latin punitio: compare French punition. See punish.

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Examples

  • The chambermaid shrugged her shoulders with something about a "punition" and, when asked why they were punished, said that some French prisoners had been brought through Lille a week or two before, and "naturally, the people shouted 'Vive la France!'"

    Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905

  • Les articles du Code de la presse invoqués interdisent, sauf autorisation du juge, la publication de tout acte de procédure pénale et sanctionnent “celui qui, à la suite des troubles, a accepté de se substituer aux autorités régulièrement constituées”, la punition pouvant aller dans ce cas jusqu'à l'emprisonnement à vie.

    Tunisia Detains Another Journalist, as Censorship Measures Grow 2009

  • Les articles du Code de la presse invoqués interdisent, sauf autorisation du juge, la publication de tout acte de procédure pénale et sanctionnent “celui qui, à la suite des troubles, a accepté de se substituer aux autorités régulièrement constituées”, la punition pouvant aller dans ce cas jusqu'à l'emprisonnement à vie.

    Tunisia Detains Another Journalist, as Censorship Measures Grow 2009

  • Je demandai à mon ange la durée de sa punition: «A cette heure-ci encore, me répondit-il en souriant, cette âme parviendra au repos éternel.»

    Les Anges et les Âmes du Purgatoire de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Je demandai à mon ange la durée de sa punition: «A cette heure-ci encore, me répondit-il en souriant, cette âme parviendra au repos éternel.»

    Archive 2008-10-19 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • En fait je me reposais les doigts parce que c'est pas drole mais j'ai trop pu l'habitude d'ecrire avec un stylo pis les lettres de motiv 'a force j'ai l'impression d'ecrire une punition!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • For example it could demand punition for the army abuses, it could demand an explanation why apparently in poor areas voting went much faster than in riche areas, it could start fighting against the finger printing machines who definitely worked psychologically to convince many not to risk a vote against Chavez.

    The Venezuelan election of 2006: a road map for the opposition? 2006

  • For example it could demand punition for the army abuses, it could demand an explanation why apparently in poor areas voting went much faster than in riche areas, it could start fighting against the finger printing machines who definitely worked psychologically to convince many not to risk a vote against Chavez.

    12/10/2006 - 12/17/2006 2006

  • For important statements of the theory of persecution, see Théodore de Bèze [Beza], Traité de l'autorité du magistrat en la punition des hérétiques (1560), the original

    RELIGIOUS TOLERATION ELISABETH LABROUSSE 1968

  • The King commendit mekyl this punition, and gaif the

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

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