单词 | punishableness |
释义 | punishablenessn. Now rare. = punishability n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [noun] > quality of being punishable obnoxiousness1610 punishableness1647 penalness1727 punitiveness1727 punishability1855 1647 J. Goodwin Hagiomastix 77 The punishablenesse of a practice is not, as hath been said, so much to be measured by this. 1679 H. Dodwell Separation Churches from Episcopal Govt. xxvi. 552 Thus great the evidence must be by which Governours must judg concerning the punishableness of Dissenters. 1786 A. Gib Καινα και Παλαια: Sacred Contempl. 272 In respect of guilt or of punishableness. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets Amos 198 The soul, is a witness to its own deathlessness, its own accountableness, its own punishableness. 1884 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 302/2 The punishableness of an offense is now generally recognized as depending solely upon the sanity of the offender. 1923 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 14 223 Lucerne..provides that the punishableness of an act, in itself criminal, presupposes reason and freedom of will in the actor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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