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Definition of Punishes
1. punish [v] - See also: punish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punishes
Literary usage of Punishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"GOD may and does very often bless children punishes the fa- to reward their
fathers piety; ... When God punishes one relative for the sin of another, ..."
2. History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1900)
"... punishes tho murderers of the magistrates —Speech of Henry's envoy to the
States-General—Letter of Queen Elizabeth to Henry—Siege of Rouen—Farnese leads ..."
3. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1839)
"He checks and punishes the insurrection of the Sogdians, sends Bessus to Ecbatana
to be put to death, and takes the city of Petra, which was thought ..."
4. Junius by Junius (1796)
"... there is no remedy but a divorce: but even then he must have a hard and a
wicked heart indeed, who punishes the greatest criminal merely for the sake of ..."
5. Junius. by Junius (1797)
"... there is no remedy but a divorce: but even then he must have a hard and a
wicked heart indeed, who punishes the greatest criminal merely for the sake of ..."
6. Publications by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
"•which preserves the honor of the country when menaced, punishes the offender
when her rights are invaded, and ever looks to an honorable extension of the ..."
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