punitory
adjUS /ˈpju.nɪ.tɔɹ.i/
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Archaic punitive; serving to punish
- God […] may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory.1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued:
- the former, a simply imperative law; the other a punitory: but the punitory, if it commands the punishment to be inflicted, and does not merely permit it, is as truly imperative as the other1780, Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation: