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penality en · NOUN

Etymology

See penalty.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality or state of being penal; liability to punishment.
   • penality is not merely an effect or a specific result of neoliberalism but is a core defining feature. 2020, Roger Hopkins Burke, Contemporary Criminological Theory:
   • Many of the Ancients denied the Antipodes, and some unto the penality of contrary affirmations 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

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