noun. The imposition of a penalty or deprivation for wrongdoing.

noun. A penalty imposed for wrongdoing.

noun. Rough treatment or use.

noun. The act of punishing; the infliction of pain or chastisement.

noun. Pain, suffering, loss, confinement, or other penalty inflicted on a person for a crime or offense, by the authority to which the offender is subject; a penalty imposed in the enforcement or application of law.

noun. Pain or injury inflicted, in a general sense; especially, in colloquial use, the pain inflicted by one pugilist on another in a prize-fight.

noun. Synonyms Chastisement, correction, discipline. See chastise.

noun. The act of punishing.

noun. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.

noun. 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.

noun. Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment.

noun. The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.

noun. A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.

noun. A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution

noun. Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling

noun. the act of punishing

"Its tenor is, that a bill which proposed, as the punishment of an offence, to levy a certain pecuniary penalty, one half thereof to go to his Majesty and the other half to the informer, was altered in committee, in so far that, when it appeared in the form of an act, _the punishment_ was changed to whipping and imprisonment,"

canonical punishments  penalty  

impunity  punishable  punisher  punishing  punitive  

corporal punishment  mirror punishment  

social control  

castigation  chastisement  corporal punishment  correction  cruel and unusual punishment  

crime  danger  destruction  guilt  imprisonment  

abuse  admonishment  admonition  amercement  avengement