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Meaning of PUNITORY

Pronunciation:  'pyooni`towree

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  inflicting punishment; "punitive justice"; "punitive damages"
 
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 Synonyms: correctional, penal, penitentiary, punitive
 
 Antonyms: rehabilitative
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pu"ni*to*ry\, a.
Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive.
      God . . . may make moral evil, as well as natural, at
      the same time both prudential and punitory. --A.
                                               Tucker.
 

 

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