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Save :: Save (a.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life..

Quit :: Quit (a.) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit..

Venire Facias :: Venire facias () A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also venire.

Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.

Centesimation :: Centesimation (n.) The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny..

Penally :: Penally (adv.) In a penal manner.

Penalize :: Penalize (v. t.) To make penal.

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.

Release :: Release (n.) To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty..

Orfgild :: Orfgild (n.) Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle.

Quit :: Quit (v.) Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted..

Doom :: Doom (v. t.) Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.

Commute :: Commute (v. t.) To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares..

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy..

Whipper :: Whipper (n.) One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping..

Penary :: Penary (a.) Penal.

Penal :: Penal (a.) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense..

Mitigation :: Mitigation (n.) The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty..

Annex :: Annex (v. t.) To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt..

Affirm :: Affirm (v. i.) To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation..

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