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propunishment

propunishment adjective: supporting or favouring punishment.

Adjective

propunishment (comparative more propunishment, superlative most propunishment)

  1. Supporting or favouring punishment.
    • One of the alternative statements represents a prorehabilitation approach while the other represents a propunishment view.2013, Stanley L. Brodsky, H. O'Neal Smitherman, Handbook of Scales for Research in Crime and Delinquency (page 14)

Forms of propunishment

comparativemore propunishment
superlativemost propunishment

Origin of propunishment

From pro- + punishment.

Questions about propunishment

What does propunishment mean?
Propunishment means supporting or favouring punishment.
What part of speech is propunishment?
Propunishment is an adjective.

Words near propunishment in the dictionary

  1. propulsively
  2. propulsiveness
  3. propulsor
  4. propulsors
  5. propulsory
  6. propunishment
  7. propurchase
  8. Propus
  9. propwash
  10. propwash deflection unit
  11. propwash deflection units

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