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Amende :: Amende (n.) A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation.

Inquisition :: Inquisition (n.) A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy..

Punitive :: Punitive (a.) Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice..

Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience..

Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution..

Remissful :: Remissful (a.) Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement.

Retribute :: Retribute (v. t.) To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute just punishment to a criminal..

Strapper :: Strappado (v. t.) To punish or torture by the strappado.

Damned :: Damned (a.) Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.

Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment..

Varuna :: Varuna (n.) The god of the waters; the Indian Neptune. He is regarded as regent of the west, and lord of punishment, and is represented as riding on a sea monster, holding in his hand a snaky cord or noose with which to bind offenders, under water..

Felony :: Felony (n.) A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment..

Action :: Action (n.) A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense..

Pandora :: Pandora (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it..

Convict :: Convict (n.) A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.

Castigation :: Castigation (n.) Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.

Answer :: Answer (n.) To atone; to be punished for.

Penance :: Penance (v. t.) To impose penance; to punish.

Impune :: Impune (a.) Unpunished.

Chastiser :: Chastiser (n.) One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector.

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