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

Elinguation :: Elinguation (n.) Punishment by cutting out the tongue.

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

Chasten :: Chasten (v. t.) To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod..

Punition :: Punition (n.) Punishment.

Attrite :: Attrite (a.) Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite.

Obnoxious :: Obnoxious (a.) Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy.

Justice :: Justice (a.) The rendering to every one his due or right; just treatment; requital of desert; merited reward or punishment; that which is due to one's conduct or motives.

Erastian :: Erastian (n.) One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the State..

Correction :: Correction (n.) The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement..

Scourge :: Scourge (n.) Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment..

Annihilationist :: Annihilationist (n.) One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

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

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

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

Ganch :: Ganch (n.) To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment..

Reprieve :: Reprieve (v. t.) To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days..

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

Favor :: Favor (n.) Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.

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

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