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Definition of Punishment
Punishment

Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment.

The act of punishing.

Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.

A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.

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Punishment Quotations

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
Emanuel Swedenborg

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mohandas Gandhi

Punishment Translations

punishment in Afrikaans is straf
punishment in Danish is straf
punishment in Dutch is straf, bestraffing
punishment in German is Strafe, Strafe, Bestrafung
punishment in Italian is castigo, punizione
punishment in Latin is ultio ultionis, poena, supplicium
punishment in Spanish is punicion, castigo, escarmiento
punishment in Swedish is straff, straff, bestraffning

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