unpenal
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- Not penal.
- 1773, Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon, State Papers: Commencing From The Year MDCXXI., page 309:
- […] his dispensation can only make the crime unpenal, not lessen it from being a crime; […]
- 1848, The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, page 162:
- Can there be no unpenal Parkhurst for the offspring of Honest poverty!