Punitive
31Punitive Damages — Legal recompense that is levied as punishment for a wrong or offense committed by the payor. Punitive damages are awarded by a court of law in a lawsuit. They are often required in order to make up for a perceived shortfall in compensatory… …
32Punitive Acts — Actes intolérables Actes intolérables Titre Coercive Acts (Actes coercitifs) ou Punitive Acts (Actes punitifs) Pays  Royaume Uni Type Loi du Parlement (Royaume Uni) …
33punitive damages — Damage Dam age (d[a^]m [asl]j; 48), n. [OF. damage, domage, F. dommage, fr. assumed LL. damnaticum, from L. damnum damage. See {Damn}.] 1. Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.… …
34Punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union — In the Soviet Union, psychiatry was used for punitive purposes. Psychiatric hospitals were often used by the authorities as prisons in order to isolate political prisoners from the rest of society, discredit their ideas, and break them physically …
35punitive — Synonyms and related words: avenging, castigating, castigatory, chastening, chastising, compensatory, correctional, corrective, disciplinary, grudgeful, grueling, implacable, inflictive, irreconcilable, penal, penological, punishing, punitory,… …
36punitive — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. punitory, vindictive, disciplinary; see penal . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. penalizing, disciplinary, correctional, punishing, penal, harsh, hard, severe, strict. ANT.: lenient, merciful III (Roget s Thesaurus II)… …
37punitive — pu·ni·tive || pjuËnÉ™tɪv adj. serving as a punishment, serving as a penalty; inflicting punishment, penalizing …
38punitive — [ pju:nɪtɪv] adjective inflicting or intended as punishment. Derivatives punitively adverb punitiveness noun Origin C17: from Fr. punitif, ive or med. L. punitivus, from L. punit , punire (see punish) …
39punitive — a. Penal …
40punitive — adj punishing, penalizing, penal, disciplinary, correctional, corrective, castigatory; retaliatory, revengeful, retributive, recriminatory; harsh, severe, bruising, hurtful …
