Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a penal manner; as a punishment or penalty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a penal manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb According to a
penal code
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a punishing manner
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Examples
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It needs to commit to being globally competitive; encouraging entrepreneurship; investing in talent and potential; rewarding success; and taxing fairly rather than penally.
What should Miliband do to make Labour electable again? 2011
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While the BoP circumvented the standard public comment (and feedback process), it has sought to get around this by describing the CMU as a "self-contained general population unit," implying that the unit is legally and penally no different than a normal unit at an FCI.
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It really is like going to a church of righteousness when we cross their sacred threshhold genuflect and collect up our sea-transported figs, un-tortured but strangely twisted vegetables, and penally diverse grains.
Archive 2006-12-17 2006
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It really is like going to a church of righteousness when we cross their sacred threshhold genuflect and collect up our sea-transported figs, un-tortured but strangely twisted vegetables, and penally diverse grains.
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Yet when it befalls me to be more moved with the voice than the words sung, I confess to have sinned penally, and then had rather not hear music.
The Confessions 1999
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Your penally for the crass remark is to become my personal love slave.
Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990
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Your penally for the crass remark is to become my personal love slave.
Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990
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Spiritual judgments of God, in hardening the hearts of men judicially and penally to their destruction, are as visible to every considering person as any of God's outward judgments whatsoever.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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But now they from whom the word is taken penally are no way troubled about it, nor do long after it; they rejoice in what they have in the room of it, -- are exceedingly well pleased without it.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The first thing God doth, when he hardens men's hearts penally, is, to give them up to their own lusts.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
nancyproe commented on the word penally
In Mrs. Charles Darwin's cookbook there is a penally pudding - unfortunately no recipe. And others on the Internet have asked with so far no results. Any ideas anyone?
March 27, 2009