Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Punitive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Punitive \Pu"ni*tive\, 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
punitive
adj : inflicting punishment; "punitive justice"; "punitive
damages" [syn: {punitory}] [ant: {rehabilitative}]
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