Sentence+of+punishment

  • 11sentence — ► NOUN 1) a set of words that is complete in itself, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command and typically containing a subject and predicate. 2) the punishment assigned to someone found guilty by a court. ► VERB ▪ declare the… …

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  • 12sentence of imprisonment — punishment resulting in being sent to jail …

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  • 13Sentence (law) — Criminal procedure Criminal trials and convictions …

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  • 14Sentence capitale — Peine de mort Application de la peine de mort dans le monde      Abolie pour tous les crimes …

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  • 15punishment — /pun ish meuhnt/, n. 1. the act of punishing. 2. the fact of being punished, as for an offense or fault. 3. a penalty inflicted for an offense, fault, etc. 4. severe handling or treatment. [1250 1300; ME punysshement < AF punisement, OF&#8230; …

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  • 16PUNISHMENT — While there is no modern theory of punishment that cannot, in some form or other, be traced back to biblical concepts, the original and foremost purpose of punishment in biblical law was the appeasement of God. God abhors the criminal ways of&#8230; …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 17sentence — The judgment formally pronounced by the court or judge upon the defendant after his conviction in a criminal prosecution, imposing the punishment to be inflicted, usually in the form of a fine, incarceration, or probation. See e.g. 18 U.S.C.A. No …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 18sentence — sentencer, n. /sen tns/, n., v., sentenced, sentencing. n. 1. Gram. a grammatical unit of one or more words, bearing minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it, often preceded and followed in speech by pauses, having one of …

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  • 19sentence — 1 / sentFns/ noun (C) 1 a group of words that usually contains a subject and a verb, expresses a complete idea or asks a question, and that, when written in English, begins with a capital letter and ends with a full­stop1 (1) 2 a punishment that&#8230; …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 20sentence — I UK [ˈsentəns] / US [ˈsent(ə)ns] noun [countable] Word forms sentence : singular sentence plural sentences *** 1) a group of words, usually including a subject and a verb, that express a statement, question, or instruction. A written sentence&#8230; …

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