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telishments

telishments is the plural of telishment.

Meaning of telishment

Noun

telishment (usually uncountable, plural telishments)

  1. (usually) The act or institution of punishing the innocent for the sake of providing deterrence.
    • Try to imagine, then, an institution (which we may call “telishment”) which is such that the officials set up by it have authority to arrange a trial for the condemnation of an innocent man whenever they are of the opinion that doing so would be in the best interests of society.1955, John Rawls, “Two Concepts of Rules”, in The Philosophical Review, LXIV, № 1, page 11

Questions about telishments

What is telishments the plural of?
Telishments is the plural of telishment.

Words near telishments in the dictionary

  1. telish
  2. telished
  3. telishes
  4. telishing
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  9. telithromycin
  10. Teliucu Inferior
  11. telium

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