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Indemnity :: Indemnity (n.) Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty..

Spare :: Spare (a.) To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to..

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

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..

Amenable :: Amenable (a.) Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc..

Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument..

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

Rebuke :: Rebuke (n.) A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment..

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

Sentence :: Sentence (v. t.) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

Rod :: Rod (n.) An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement..

Attrition :: Attrition (n.) Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition.

Theftbote :: Theftbote (n.) The receiving of a man's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment..

Reprobate :: Reprobate (a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved..

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

Tantalism :: Tantalism (n.) A punishment like that of Tantalus; a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable; tantalization.

Severity :: Severity (n.) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war..

Tumbril :: Tumbril (n.) A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds.

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

Blanketing :: Blanketing (n.) The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.

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