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- adjective Not
penal .
Etymologies
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non- + penal
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Examples
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"nonpenal" clothing to wear for low-risk detainees.
ajc.com - News 2010
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"nonpenal" clothing to wear for low-risk detainees.
ajc.com - News 2010
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And after that now in the future, please God, after nonpenal start, all repeating ourselves, in medios loquos, from where he got
Finnegans Wake 2006
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The long-term prediction of violence is primarily based on studies 938, 990 of inmates in institutions for the criminally insane, who upon discharge were evaluated largely through arrest records in nonpenal settings or in the community.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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