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punition Now rare.|pjuːˈnɪʃən|
Forms: 5– puni-, (5 pugny-), 5–6 puny-, (6 Sc. pwni-); 5–6 -cio(u)n, -cyon, -ssion, -ssyon, (5 -sshon), 6 -sion, etc., 6– -tion.
[a. F. punition punishment (14th c. in Littré), ad. late L. pūnītiōn-em, n. of action from pūnīre to punish.]
The action of punishing; infliction of chastisement; punishment.
1425Rolls of Parlt. IV. 276/1 The said merchantz, shall paie double the value of the Subsidee..wyth outen any other punicion. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1906) 98 God shewed her gret punissyon for her pride. 1471Caxton Recuyell (Sommer) 449 Why..amendest the not.. for the pugnycion that thou hast suffred. 1513Douglas æneis ii. x. 23 Sair pwnitioun of Greikis dred scho. 1549Crowley Last Trumpet 1576 Yet se if thou can cause him feare Goddes terrible punission. 1615E. Hoby Curry-combe iii. 109 The time after this life is for punition, not for purgation. 1657–83Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 85 Means for the punition of tyrants, and the vices of men. 1830Fraser's Mag. II. 391 The doom of restitution and punition.
Hence puˈnitional a., of, pertaining to or of the nature of punishment; whence puˈnitionally adv.
1824Bentham Mem. Wks. 1843 X. 548 There should be no responsibility, punitional or compensational. 1826― in Westm. Rev. Oct. 494 Every lawyer..might and should be made punitionally and compensationally responsible. |