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Commination :: Commination (n.) A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

Damnation :: Damnation (n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.

Comminatory :: Comminatory (a.) Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms..

Example :: Example (n.) That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning.

Damn :: Damn (v. t.) To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

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

Penality :: Penality (n.) The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment.

Damnation :: Damnation (n.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself..

Squeak :: Squeak (v. i.) To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc..

Commutation :: Commutation (n.) The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment..

Punishment :: Punishment (n.) 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..

Avengement :: Avengement (n.) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.

Picket :: Picket (n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake..

Mulct :: Mulct (v. t.) Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline..

Inhuman :: Inhuman (a.) Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment..

Punisher :: Punisher (n.) One who inflicts punishment.

Taws :: Taws (n.) A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster..

Beating :: Beating (n.) The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

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

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