punitory
English
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editpunitory (comparative more punitory, superlative most punitory)
- (archaic) punitive; serving to punish
- 1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued:
- God […] may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory.
- 1780, Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation:
- 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
References
edit- “punitory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.