punishment : Idioms & Phrases

• such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc.

Webster 1913

• noun putting a condemned person to death
  executing; execution; death penalty.
  

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• noun the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
  

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• (law), punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment.

Webster 1913

• noun punishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution; includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed
  

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• noun a right guaranteed by the 8th amendment to the US Constitution
  

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• noun an instrument designed and used to punish a condemned person
  

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• noun punishment inflicted on yourself
  

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