Adjective : punitive laws; punitive action. From Dictionary.com.
In almost all his writings he opposes this punitory justice. From Wordnik.com. [A Dissertation on Divine Justice] Reference
But the apostle says that this anger or punitory justice is “revealed from heaven.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Dissertation on Divine Justice] Reference
But, “That punitory justice,” say they, “which you assign as the source of punishment, is opposite to mercy.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Dissertation on Divine Justice] Reference
To owe, then, “the good of punitory justice to the universe,” is to owe the good of an essential attribute to his own glory. From Wordnik.com. [A Dissertation on Divine Justice] Reference
Government can do no less than insist upon a continuance of the protective and punitory measures which the Chinese Government has heretofore applied. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
But this reason is evidently of no force; for besides that arguments from opposites do not hold always good in theology, as hath been shown in various instances by Maccovius, we have before demonstrated at large that the relation between remunerating grace and punitory justice is not the same. From Wordnik.com. [A Dissertation on Divine Justice] Reference
That punitory justice is one alone and individual, we affirm; but that it is variously exercised, on account of the difference of the objects about which it is employed, we acknowledge; — but this by no means proves it to be twofold; for he ought not, among men, to be said to be endowed with a twofold justice who renders different recompenses to those who merit differently. From Wordnik.com. [A Dissertation on Divine Justice] Reference
Hoary, gigantic shapes of eld do wrong to the Gods, and are put into the punitory Hades. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
But, as demanded by conditions, the work of these courts is remedial rather than vindictive and punitory. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
This Government can do no less than insist upon a continuance of the protective and punitory measures which the Chinese Government has heretofore applied. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address] Reference
It may here be noted that, although several of the Taira leaders who took the field against the Minamoto were killed in the campaign or executed or exiled after it, the punitory measures adopted by. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
But, chiefly, Ulysses has above on this earth realized the idea of a world-justice, which we found running through all Hades, in the statements of Tiresias, in the fates of the great Greek heroes, in the punitory portion presided over by Minos. From Wordnik.com. [Homer's Odyssey A Commentary] Reference
Thus, when the Bakufu army, comprising contingents from thirty-six feudatories, reached Choshu, the latter appealed to the clemency of the invading generals, among whom the Satsuma baron was the most powerful, and the appeal resulted in the withdrawal of the punitory expedition without the imposition of any conditions. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
And as any question which, bearing, not on the punitory extent and ethical consequences of the Flood, but merely on its geographic limits and natural effects, is not a moral, but a purely physical question, it would be but a fair presumption, founded on the almost invariable experience of ages, that the deductions from. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
As an illustration of what was the correct course to follow may be taken the case of Tsin in 632, when a Tsin army was marching on a punitory expedition against the imperial clan state of Ts'ao; the most direct way ran through Wei, but this latter state declined to allow the Tsin army to pass; it was therefore obliged to cross the. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient China Simplified] Reference
A punitory visit to Formosa, and China, recognizing that her territory had been invaded, lodged a protest which would probably have involved the two empires in a war had not the British minister in Peking intervened. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
"making war" and "putting to death" head the list of imperial chastisements, war being thus regarded as the Emperor's rod in the shape of a posse of punitory police, rather than as an expression of statecraft, ambitious greed, or vainglorious self-assertion. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient China Simplified] Reference
“leaveth not himself without witness, in that he doeth good, and giveth us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness,” Matt.v. 45; Acts xiv. 17; so also he gives equally clear signs and testimonies of his anger, severity, and indignation, or of his punitory justice. From Wordnik.com. [A Dissertation on Divine Justice] Reference
“the good of punitory justice?”. From Wordnik.com. [A Dissertation on Divine Justice] Reference
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