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penality Now rare.|pɪˈnælɪtɪ|
[a. F. pénalité (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) or ad. med.L. pœnālitās penalty, mulct (Du Cange), f. L. pœnāl-is: see penal a.1 and -ity. Cf. It. penalità ‘penaltie, forfeiture’ (Florio).]
†1. Painfulness; pain, suffering: = penalty 1.
c1495Epitaffe, etc. in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 391 Your plesures been past vnto penalyte. 1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione ii. xii. 194 In greuouse temptacions & tribulacions, & penalite of lyfe. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge ii. 1060 Counnyng surgeans..To cure this gentylman from penalite.
†2. = penalty 2. Obs.
1531in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 101 Suche penalytes as hathe..ben..accustomyd to be payed. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 34 b, [They] banyshed oute of their landes and seigniories all Englishe..commodities vpon great forfeytures and penalities.
3. The character or fact of being penal.
1650Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. vi. (ed. 2) 18 Many of the Ancients denied the Antipodes, and some unto the penality [so ed. 1658; edd. 1646, 1676 penalty] of contrary affirmations. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 415 Respect..to the general nature, to the penality or non⁓penality, of the suit. Ibid. III. 253 Offences occupying a high rank in the scale of criminality or penality. |