penality

The quality or state of being penal; liability to punishment.

Noun

  1. The quality or state of being penal; liability to punishment.
    • Many of the Ancients denied the Antipodes, and some unto the penality of contrary affirmations - 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and...
    • penality is not merely an effect or a specific result of neoliberalism but is a core defining feature. - 2020, Roger Hopkins Burke, Contemporary Criminological Theory:

Origin

See penalty.

Forms

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