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▪ I. punishing, vbl. n.|ˈpʌnɪʃɪŋ|
[f. punish v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. punish; an instance of this; punishment.
c1375XI Pains of Hell 222 in O.E. Misc. 217 Þis schal be here ponyschyng. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxi. (Clement) 737 Fore-þi I thole þis punysing. c1500Melusine 2 The punysshinges of god ben as abysmes without bottom. 1630Earl of Manchester in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 271 The punishing of rogues and idle persons. 1659Milton Civ. Power Wks. 1851 V. 317 He himself uses it to thir punishing. 1835Marryat Pirate vi, You will see what effect your punishing may have upon him.
▪ II. punishing, ppl. a.|ˈpʌnɪʃɪŋ|
[f. punish v. + -ing2.]
a. That punishes; chastising, punitive.
a1340Hampole Psalter xx. 8 Thi pouste punyesand be funden til all thi faas. 1624T. Godwin Moses & Aaron (1641) 114 That the punishing Angell might passe over them. 1659Hammond On Ps. ciii. 9, 10 Par. 506 He takes off his punishing hand again.
b. slang or colloq. Hard-hitting.
1811Sporting Mag. XXXVIII. 184/1 The punishing right hand of his adversary. 1820J. H. Reynolds Fancy (1906) 69 With..clenched hands, firm, and of punishing size. 1846W. Denison Cricket: Sketches of Players 15 As a batsman he has a good defence, and occasionally is found to be a punishing hitter. 1866Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 427 Some punishing hitter of the opposite side has come in. 1894Daily News 24 May 5/4 An accomplished wicket-keeper..and a punishing batsman. 1900P. F. Warner Cricket in Many Climes v. i. 178 Murray Bisset..is a very sound and stylish bat with a good deal of wrist work, but is perhaps just a little short of punishing power.
c. Excessively severe and exhausting; scarcely tolerable.
1971N. Stacey Who Cares? xiii. 216, I was still involved in a punishing fourteen-hours-a-day programme at Woolwich. 1973A. Ross Dunfermline Affair 180 He studied his alter ego almost every minute of every day for a punishing three years. 1975Nature 6 Nov. 91/2 Barnes had considerable skill as a laboratory bench worker but little opportunity to exercise it in his later years because of the punishing load of advisory and administrative work that he willingly undertook. 1977Church Times 14 Jan. 6/3 The OPEC countries..have been giving real aid to some of the poorer countries which has more than equalled the punishing rise in the price of oil.
Add: Hence ˈpunishingly adv.
a1948D. Welch Voice through Cloud (1950) vi. 55 The face of the Irish nurse stiffened. She seemed to bristle... She quickly threw the towel across and started to scrub me punishingly. 1973Times 31 Dec. 13/8 It [sc. a role] was punishingly difficult to learn. 1984A. Brookner Hotel du Lac iii. 37 His hair was punishingly short. 1987P. Lomas Limits of Interpretation vi. 67 Freud..had a huge capacity for punishingly hard work. |