Punishment

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Definition

Of 'punishment'.

A punishment is an evil inflicted by public authority on him that hath done or omitted that which is judged by the same authority to be a transgression of the law, to the end that the will of men may thereby the better be disposed to obedience.

Hobbes, Lev XXVIII 1

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