penality
nounEtymology See penalty.
1
The quality or state of being penal; liability to punishment.
- Many of the Ancients denied the Antipodes, and some unto the penality of contrary affirmations1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- penality is not merely an effect or a specific result of neoliberalism but is a core defining feature.2020, Roger Hopkins Burke, Contemporary Criminological Theory: