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pœnology

pœnology is the archaic spelling of penology.

Meaning of penology

Noun

penology (countable and uncountable, plural penologies)

  1. Study of the processes devised and adopted for the punishment and prevention of crime.

Forms of pœnology

alternative formpenology

Questions about pœnology

What is pœnology the archaic spelling of?
Pœnology is the archaic spelling of penology.

Words near pœnology in the dictionary

  1. pœnalty
  2. pœnitent
  3. pœnitential
  4. pœnitents
  5. pœnological
  6. pœnology
  7. Pœuilly
  8. Přemyslid
  9. Přemyslids
  10. Přerov
  11. pūkeko

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pœnology (page history and authors); penology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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