Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being punishable.
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- noun The quality of being
punishable ; liability to bepunished .
Etymologies
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In reference to their guilt and punishableness, they are classed into venial and mortal (peccata venalia et mortalia); the former consist in the turning to the finite without a conscious and designed turning-away from God, and they involve finite punishments, either here upon earth or in purgatory; mortal sins consist in
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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Some statements of Wilders can be regarded as offending, but since these were made (outside the Dutch Second Chamber) as a contribution to a social debate there is no longer a ground for punishableness of those statements according to the public prosecution.
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(outside the Dutch Second Chamber) as a contribution to a social debate there is no longer a ground for punishableness of those statements according to the public prosecution.
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