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poenology

poenology is the obsolete form 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.

Questions about poenology

What is poenology the obsolete form of?
Poenology is the obsolete form of penology.

Words near poenology in the dictionary

  1. POEMS syndrome
  2. poena cullei
  3. poena damni
  4. poenamu
  5. Poeni
  6. poenology
  7. poep
  8. poephagous
  9. poeps
  10. Poer
  11. Poers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poenology (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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