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parapenal

parapenal adjective: serving the same functions as the penal system but operating separately.

Adjective

parapenal (not comparable)

  1. 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

Origin of parapenal

para- + penal

Questions about parapenal

What does parapenal mean?
Parapenal means serving the same functions as the penal system but operating separately.
What part of speech is parapenal?
Parapenal is an adjective.

Words near parapenal in the dictionary

  1. parapegma
  2. parapegmas
  3. parapegmata
  4. parapegms
  5. parapelvic
  6. parapenal
  7. parapenile
  8. parapenting
  9. parapeptone
  10. parapeptones
  11. paraperigone

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