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Corporal punishment   /kˈɔrpərəl pˈənɪʃmənt/   Listen
Corporal punishment

noun
1.
The infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime.





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"Corporal punishment" Quotes from Famous Books



... try to contradict him, and he'll fill your house with a whole regiment of soldiers. And if you say anything, he orders the doors closed. "I won't inflict corporal punishment on you," he says, "or put you in the rack. That's forbidden by law," he says. "But I'll make you swallow ...
— The Inspector-General • Nicolay Gogol
... to different settlements for misdemeanour, not to return until the expiration of sentence, under penalty of corporal punishment. ...
— The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) • David Dickinson Mann


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