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Punitive
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice. If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence. I. Taylor. We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand. Bagehot.