punitory

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Pronunciation

/ˈpju.nɪ.tɔɹ.i/(US)

Definition of punitory

1 sense · 1 part of speech

adj

(archaic)punitive; serving to punish

“God […] may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory.”
“the former, a simply imperative law; the other a punitory: but the punitory, if it commands the punishment to be inflicted, and does not merely permit it, is as truly imperative as the other”

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