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Definition of Penalisation
1. Noun. The act of punishing.
Generic synonyms: Social Control
Specialized synonyms: Castigation, Chastisement, Corporal Punishment, Cruel And Unusual Punishment, Detention, Correction, Discipline, Economic Strangulation, Imprisonment, Medicine, Music, Self-punishment, Stick, Penance, Self-abasement, Self-mortification
Derivative terms: Penalise, Penalize, Penalise, Punish
Definition of Penalisation
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of penalization) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Penalisation
Literary usage of Penalisation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Problems of Population and Parenthood: Being the 2d Report of and the Chief by James Marchant (1920)
"SIDNEY WEBB (a) The Extent and Nature of the penalisation.—The economic penalisation
of parenthood takes place at present at many points and in different ..."
2. Problems of Population and Parenthood by James Marchant (1920)
"SIDNEY WEBB (a) The Extent and Nature of the penalisation.—The economic penalisation
of parenthood takes place at present at many points and in different ..."
3. Journal of Theological Studies (1901)
"... therefore upon the writers of the Corinthian letter, by the legislation of
Augustus for the encouragement of marriage and the penalisation of celibacy. ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1908)
"... it was regarded with apprehension as—to quote the phrase of the Daily Telegraph—a
further step in the penalisation of capital. ..."
5. The Dictionary of English History; by Sidney Low, Sidney James Mark Low Sir, Frederick Sanders Pulling (1897)
"His political functions gradually disappeared, whiles the increasing «penalisation
of our legal system gave to his functions as president of the chief court ..."
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