punition

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin punitio: compare French punition. See punish.

Noun

punition (countable and uncountable, plural punitions)

1. (obsolete) punishment

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   • 1845, The English Review (volume 4, page 145)

     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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “punition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Related terms

• penal, also read Penal code on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• punishment
• punitive
• punitively
• impunity
• punitive damages on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “punition”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• unipoint

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pūnītiō (“punishment”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.ni.sjɔ̃/

• audio (une punition):

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Noun

punition f (plural punitions)

1. punishment

Derived terms

• autopunition

Related terms

• punir

Further reading

• “punition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Noun

punition f (plural punitions)

1. punishment