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Impunity :: Impunity (n.) Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss..

Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To pass or spend, as time, esp. time of punishment; as, to serve a term in prison..

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.

Retribution :: Retribution (n.) That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or wrong..

Judgment :: "Judgment (v. i.) A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment..

Corrigible :: Corrigible (a.) Deserving chastisement; punishable.

Stigmatic :: Stigmatic (n.) A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.

Disciple :: Disciple (v. t.) To punish; to discipline.

Tantalus :: Tantalus (n.) A Phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to grasp them..

Penal :: Penal (a.) Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence.

Cart :: Cart (v. t.) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

Whirligig :: Whirligig (n.) A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity..

Guilty :: Guilty (superl.) Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment..

Payment :: Payment (n.) Punishment; chastisement.

Shot-free :: Shot-free (a.) Free from charge or expense; hence, unpunished; scot-free..

Merit :: Merit (n.) To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment..

Hell :: Hell (v. t.) The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish..

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

Penal :: Penal (a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code..

Plitt :: Plitt (n.) An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia..

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