punitory
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈpju.nɪ.tɔɹ.i/
Adjective
punitory (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
- “punitory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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