2. Adjective. Subject to a penalty as a punishment ¹
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Definition of Penalised
1. penalise [v] - See also: penalise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Penalised
Literary usage of Penalised
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland: And by John Condie Stewart Sandeman (1905)
"The culprit suspended on the ground that he should have been penalised. The Court
suspended. Fräser v. ..."
2. People's Co-operative Banks: For Workers in Towns, and Small Holders by Henry C. Devine (1908)
"How Bondholders and Borrowers are penalised.— With regard to the bondholders,
what happens is this: A member takes up a share of, say, any value from £5 to ..."
3. Our Women: Chapters on the Sex-discord by Arnold Bennett (1920)
"It seems to us entirely natural that a married woman should be penalised, and
our first impulse, on the anomaly being pointed out to us, ..."
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