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punishment
  1. The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
  2. A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
  3. A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
  4. (figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “It was unlikely that he would escape punishment for his provable crimes.”
      “Do the crime and punishment by the justice system will more than likely follow.”
      “Furthermore, the French imposed a heavy tax as a financial punishment of all southern villages in the amount of 100,000 golden pounds.”
impunity
  1. (countable, law) Exemption from punishment.
  2. (uncountable) Freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Criminals should not be allowed to commit crimes with impunity in broad daylight.”
      “Those who call for an end to impunity view crimes committed in wars or civil conflicts in the same way as crimes committed by common criminals.”
      “Most irritating were the German rocket launchers, which miraculously decimate infantry and armour alike with impunity.”
punishability
  1. The characteristic of being punishable; the ability to be punished.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The shock remains, and the idea of human punishability is never unsaid.”
punishableness
  1. The quality of being punishable; liability to be punished.
punity
punitiveness
  1. The state or condition of being punitive.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I have just put online here one of my academic papers that reports some survey findings about punitiveness.”
      “The punitiveness of the criminal code was both inhumane and counter-productive.”
      “The authors believe that measuring positive and negative emotional involvement separately revealed significant findings on maternal intrusiveness and punitiveness.”
punishee
  1. A person undergoing punishment.
punishingness
  1. Quality of being punishing.
punishing
punition
punisher
  1. One who punishes.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “For the man inside the hut, his accuser and punisher were being merciless.”
      “For the man inside the hut, his accuser and punisher was being mercilessness.”
      “Veteran striker Roddy Grant, that prolific penalty-box punisher of clubs, is obviously a man with no romance in his soul.”
punishabilities
  1. plural of punishability
punishments
  1. plural of punishment
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is good for men to respect and admire them, without expecting favours or punishments from them.”
      “Zhu Ke, the writer, said the substitution of the lash for crueler corporal punishments revealed a forward movement of civilization.”
      “At these meetings, cases were judged and punishments imposed by a council of important men who were changed from time to time.”
punishings
punishees
  1. plural of punishee
punishers
punitions
impunities
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