penality

English

Etymology

See penalty.

Noun

penality (countable and uncountable, plural penalities)

1. The quality or state of being penal; liability to punishment.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     Many of the Ancients denied the Antipodes, and some unto the penality of contrary affirmations

   • 2020, Roger Hopkins Burke, Contemporary Criminological Theory:

     penality is not merely an effect or a specific result of neoliberalism but is a core defining feature.

References

• “penality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ptyaline