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adjective
serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
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Punitive
is always a great word to know.
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punitive
1624, "inflicting or involving punishment," from Fr. punitif (16c.), from M.L. punitivus (c.1260), from L. punitus, pp. of punire (see punish).
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