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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