noncorporal
adjEtymology From non- + corporal.
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Not corporal.
- Whiting takes the language of "enlightened" (noncorporal) methods of disciplining children and turns it into a Kafkaesque nightmare of ambiguous threats, disorienting double messages, and absurd lures as the goal of making the boy apologize becomes absorbed into the family members' struggle for authority and justification.1988 August 12, Albert Williams, “Take Time to Listen”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2021: