Definition of Punishing

1. Adjective. Resulting in punishment. "The king imposed a punishing tax"

Participles: Punish

2. Adjective. Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort. "Set a punishing pace"

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

punims
puniness
puninesses
punish
punishabilities
punishability
punishable
punishableness
punishably
punished
punishee
punishees
punisher
punishers
punishes
punishing
punishingly
punishment
punishments
punisht
punition
punitions
punitive
punitive damages
punitively
punitiveness
punitivenesses
punitorily
punitory
punji

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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