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penalities

penalities is the plural of penality.

Meaning of penality

Noun

penality (countable and uncountable, plural penalities)

  1. The quality or state of being penal; liability to punishment.
    • Many of the Ancients denied the Antipodes, and some unto the penality of contrary affirmations1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Questions about penalities

What is penalities the plural of?
Penalities is the plural of penality.

Words near penalities in the dictionary

  1. penalise
  2. penalised
  3. penalises
  4. penalising
  5. penalism
  6. penalities
  7. penality
  8. penalizability
  9. penalizable
  10. penalization
  11. penalizations

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