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Definition of Punishability

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Punishability

Literary usage of Punishability

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri, William West Smithers, Joseph Ignatius Kelly, John Lisle (1917)
"Eclectic Theories of punishability. Indeed, the conditions of the act, the agent, and society influence the form of the legal sanctions and, hence, ..."

2. Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri, William West Smithers, Joseph Ignatius Kelly, John Lisle (1917)
"Eclectic Theories of punishability. Indeed, the conditions of the act, the agent, and society influence the form of the legal sanctions and, hence, ..."

3. Reason and Revelation: Being an Examination Into the Nature and Contents of by William Horne (1876)
"The idea is not so primitive as that of punishability, nor can it be so early impressed ... But the purely moral idea of duty, like that of punishability, ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1882)
"He rather agreed with the views of Dr. Hammond in regard to the punishability of the insane. He believed in the old English doctrine. ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1882)
"He rather agreed with the views of Dr. Hammond in regard to the punishability of the insane. He believed in the old English doctrine. ..."

6. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"Granting these two postulates, punishability (carrying with it, in a well constituted society, Responsibility), is amply vindicated. ..."

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