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- noun uncountable The practice or institution of punishing the
innocent for the sake of providingdeterrence . - noun countable An instance of
telishing .
Etymologies
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Coined by John Rawls in his 1955 paper “Two Concepts of Rules”. Probably a portmanteau of the Ancient Greek τέλος (telos, "result”, “end”, loosely “the greater good") and the English (pun)ishment. Compare telish.
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