punitory
English
Adjective
punitory (comparative more punitory, superlative most punitory)
- punitive; tending to punish
- A. Tucker
- God […] may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory.
- A. Tucker
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for punitory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)