punitory

punitive; serving to punish

Adjective

  1. punitive; serving to punish
    • God […] may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory. - 1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued:
    • 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 - 1780, Jeremy Bentham, An...

    Synonyms: castigatory vindicatory vindictive punishmental punitive punitory

Forms

more punitory most punitory