Meaning of punition | Babel Free

Definitions

punishment

countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Yee judges vpon earth, let⟳ our iuste punitions Teach⟳ you to shake⟳ off bribes, and kepe your handes pure.”

“The corrections of the scholars consist⟳ of penitences and punitions; the former are, keeping a boy standing, or on his knees, or in an ignominious place⟳; the latter are pensums (i. e. impositions), or, rarely, the use⟳ of a leather thong on the hand.”

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