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death penalty

noun

Etymology

From death + penalty.

  1. derived from *kʷoynéh₂✻
  2. derived from *kʷoinā́✻
  3. derived from ποινή
  4. derived from poenālis
  5. borrowed from pénalité
  6. compounded as death penalty — “death + penalty”

Definitions

  1. A punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state.

    • And if you would like one more fact about this worthy, he was responsible for an Act on the statute book abolishing the death penalty for cattle rustling.
    • Joe Biden deserves the death penalty and Jonald Trump bad.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA