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Definition of Punishing
1. Adjective. Resulting in punishment. "The king imposed a punishing tax"
2. Adjective. Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort. "Set a punishing pace"
Similar to: Effortful
Derivative terms: Arduousness, Hardness, Heaviness, Labor, Laboriousness, Operoseness, Toilsomeness
Definition of Punishing
1. Verb. (present participle of ''punish'') ¹
2. Adjective. That inflicts punishment ¹
3. Adjective. arduous, gruelling ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Punishing
1. punish [v] - See also: punish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punishing
Literary usage of Punishing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1862)
"... meeting convened for punishing the ... determined to levy a joint force
punishing • r force for for the purpose of punishing the ..."
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"With a view to maintaining discipline in the army, orders were continually being
issued for severely punishing ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... and the punishing of persons refusing to give evidence or to produce documents,
or otherwise guilty of contempt in open Court.1 § 1299. ..."
4. The five great monarchies of the ancient Eastern world; or, The history by George Rawlinson (1871)
"All of them were lined throughout with sculptures. The most important seem to
have been three halls en suite (VIII. V. and King punishing prisoners, ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1888)
"The legislation of the session includes the following acts : punishing ...
punishing abuse and profanity toward another, ami abuse of his relatives m his ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1921)
"Sufficiency of Existing Legislation for punishing Offenses Against Foreign
Governments. Offenses against the sovereignty and territory of foreign states are ..."
7. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"Severity in punishing jurisdiction of the baronial court over the disputes of
two or more tenants of the same lord was not interfered with. ..."
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