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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

parapenal en · ADJ

Etymology

para- + penal

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Serving the same functions as the penal system but operating separately.
    • The entire parapenal institution, which is created in order not to be a prison, culminates in the cell, on the walls of which are written in black letters: "God sees you." 1979, Michel Foucault, translated by Alan Sheridan, Discipline and Punish, page 295: