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/pˈənɪʃmənt/ Listen

noun

Punishment n.

The act of punishing.

Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense. "I never gave them condign punishment." "The rewards and punishments of another life."

(Law) 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.

Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment. (Colloq. or Slang)

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"Punishment" Quotes from Famous Books

... he said, leaving Jerry to find the road for himself for a minute,—"how shall I do it?—so? And how much punishment do you require? I think a little is not ...

— Say and Seal, Volume II • Susan Warner

... fifteen administrative departments and a portion of five others. Up to this time 7,000 prisoners had been captured. Meanwhile large forces of Germans continued arriving and reenforcing the enemy's lines, and now the determination of the Germans to devote their best energies to the punishment of Rumania was indicated by the fact that this northern army was under the command of General von Falkenhayn, formerly chief of ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

... widow, as she was by this time—administered a severe punishment to her son by first giving him a bite, and then refusing to give him his supper. She began, after a time, to refuse him his supper so often, that the baby Hippo at last made up his mind to get other food, and in a very short time found out that rice, corn, ...

— Rataplan • Ellen Velvin

... came down on Yussuf for an extra levy, because of the added trade that conceivably might be expected to accrue through the advertisement obtained by serving such an exalted customer. The tax-gatherer also threatened the bastinado; and as the man who likes that punishment, or who could soften the heart of a Turkish tax assessor, has yet to be discovered, ...

— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy

... was wholly like my grandfather, who was a man of many whims, to give his affairs into Pickering’s keeping; and I could not complain, for I had missed my own chance with him. It was, I knew readily enough, part of my punishment for having succeeded so signally in incurring my grandfather’s displeasure that he had made it necessary for me to treat with Arthur Pickering in this matter of the will; and Pickering was enjoying the situation to the full. ...

— The House of a Thousand Candles • Meredith Nicholson

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