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punishment

[puhn-ish-muhnt]

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noun

the act of punishing.

the fact of being punished, as for an offense or fault.

a penalty inflicted for an offense, fault, etc.

severe handling or treatment.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English punysshement < Anglo-French punisement, Old French punissement. See punish, -ment

Related forms

non·pun·ish·ment, noun

o·ver·pun·ish·ment, noun

pre·pun·ish·ment, noun

pro·pun·ish·ment, adjective

re·pun·ish·ment, noun

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self-pun·ish·ment, noun

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Example Sentences

If you wait too long the child will not connect the punishment with the behavior.

The conversation turned to corporal punishment in public schools.

We live in a land where all people are equal, which should include punishment for crimes that one commits.

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If you wait too long the child will not connect the punishment with the behavior.

The conversation turned to corporal punishment in public schools.

We live in a land where all people are equal, which should include punishment for crimes that one commits.

If so, turning pirate might have been his way of escaping punishment when the revolt failed.

And when selfish punishment works well, benefit they do.

Contestants tended to eye the barrier respectfully: the punishment for false starts was a thrashing from official whip bearers.

And for that reason, they're now getting the punishment they deserve.

We abhor capital punishment for its needless taking of life by society.

Tenure meetings and dissertation defenses would be prime occasions for the administering of corporal punishment.

Scores of countries have now abandoned capital punishment.

Singer and colleagues note that women may react more negatively to physical forms of punishment than men.

The regulatory authorities are a joke, no punishment never ever.

It may lead to the punishment of individuals who have engaged in violently destructive acts.

And one big punishment is the threat of long-term solitary confinement.

The department has not yet decided what punishment to impose if officers make off with their pink armbands as well.

Certainly the rewards of living clean help, but the fear of punishment and shame are strong motivators.

Opponents of capital punishment tend to respond by saying that juries, being human, err.

Said to have been destroyed as punishment for its inhabitants' impiety, the city remained elusive for centuries.

The point here is that there was no punishment for cheating.

Marshall opines against capital punishment and for affirmative action.

Anonymous is here to ensure punishment does not go unserved to those who deserve it.

We seek applicants with teaching and research interests in the area of crime and punishment.

These include punishment for breaking ancient codes of honor.

We have become a punishment oriented society rather than a solution oriented society which is a sure path to failure.

I've always loved them, so it's no punishment to eat more.

Most states have switched to lethal injection, considered less likely to be outlawed as cruel and unusual punishment.

The punishment covers such offenses as cheating on a test, forging a professor's signature, and stealing a book from a library.

They forgot their fear of punishment for aiding a forbidden foreigner.

The preferred treatments for melancholy in his time were purges, emetics, bleedings and physical punishment.

Five years behind bars for hacking wasn't punishment enough.

Children, barely at the stage of walking, were not spared forced labor or punishment.

And his portrayal of his father's punishment by plantation overseer exposed slavery for all its violence.

Many prisoners' websites are run by foreign activists who live in countries where capital punishment is illegal.

They spoke of retaliation, of vengeance, of punishment.

Capital punishment should be brought implemented all over in the extreme.

And it was free, as long as you didn't suffer punishment for choosing any card other than the joker.

The jacket is well built and can clearly withstand some punishment.

In other words, there is emotion behind a punishment.

Study shows threat of on-the-spot license suspension a greater deterrent to drunk driving than postconviction punishment.

It's a punishment for repeated and deceptive editing of articles related to the.

It is not about corporal punishment but about a kid who simply gets the joy of life beaten out of him at turn after turn.

I'd definitely plan on wearing slacks, unless you're a glutton for punishment.

But he told the military court they couldn't hold him for so long, and they raised his punishment to five and a half years.

Security experts called for stern punishment of the teens, insisting the damage went beyond a children's prank.

The series resulted in the governor placing a moratorium on capital punishment in the state.

With their well-developed sense of right and wrong, prodigies consider punishment undeserved, and they may withdraw further.

Whether the punishment suited the couple's activities later became a hot debate topic.

Unmarried people who break the law are subject to punishment by lashing.

Having to listen to me more than once is punishment enough.

Yes there were fines, meant as punishment for not following the law.

She felt there needed to be some sort of connection between the offense and the purifying punishment.

The punishment for crossing the border is imprisonment in labor camps, and worse for those who reach out to missionaries.

The bible goes on to say that our mortality and pain during child birth is punishment for that sin.

It follows incentive, reward, punishment and other material forms of attention.

But research indicates that children who are not alarmed don't react to the threat of punishment when they misbehave.

In prisons, solitary confinement is used as punishment.

But our national predilection for punishment has gotten out of hand.

It surpresses women, human rights and enables extreme punishment of individuals.

It uses a reward instead of punishment or negative actions.

Punishment should not be aborting the child but mandatory sterilisation of the mother and father.

He asks them why the monitoring system can't be used for positive reinforcement instead of punishment.

The punishment is a matter for police officials and the.

Yelling or hitting a dog through anger and frustration, is punishment.

The punishment for the physician was that his medical group stopped admitting patients to the hospital.

You'd think that simply firing them would be punishment enough.

Security should be increased as well as punishment before poison-ingected horns should be the norm.

Calls for law and order led to harsher punishment for offenders.

In my opinion the harshest punishment should be meted out to such opportunists to deter them.

If you're a parent who liked to sit and watch your kid run around the store, this is your punishment for hogging all the seats.

It is not the money god visiting punishment on the heathen city dwellers.

As med schools grew dependent on corpses from the gallows, dissection came to be considered the ultimate punishment.

Again, it is a reward for the folks in attendance and a punishment for the students who thought to sit that day out.

There are many who agree that the punishment fits the crime in this.

All that you have found is your inevitable punishment.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

punishment (ˈpʌnɪʃmənt)

—n
1.	a penalty or sanction given for any crime or offence
2.	the act of punishing or state of being punished
3.	informal rough treatment
4.	psychol any aversive stimulus administered to an organism as part of training

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Easton

Bible Dictionary

Punishment definition

The New Testament lays down the general principles of good government, but contains no code of laws for the punishment of offenders. Punishment proceeds on the principle that there is an eternal distinction between right and wrong, and that this distinction must be maintained for its own sake. It is not primarily intended for the reformation of criminals, nor for the purpose of deterring others from sin. These results may be gained, but crime in itself demands punishment. (See MURDER ØT0002621; THEFT.) Endless, of the impenitent and unbelieving. The rejection of this doctrine "cuts the ground from under the gospel...blots out the attribute of retributive justice; transmutes sin into misfortune instead of guilt; turns all suffering into chastisement; converts the piacular work of Christ into moral influence...The attempt to retain the evangelical theology in connection with it is futile" (Shedd).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

punishment

see glutton for punishment.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

punishment

the infliction of some kind of pain or loss upon a person for a misdeed (i.e., the transgression of a law or command). Punishment may take forms ranging from capital punishment, flogging, forced labour, and mutilation of the body to imprisonment and fines. Deferred punishments consist of penalties that are imposed only if an offense is repeated within a specified time.

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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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