punitory

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpju.nɪ.tɔɹ.i/

Adjective

punitory (comparative more punitory, superlative most punitory)

1. (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.