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mirror punishment

noun

Etymology

Possibly a calque translation of Dutch spiegelstraf or German Spiegelstrafe

Definitions

  1. A form of punishment that reflects the nature of the transgression that it punishes.

    • Mirror punishments are often justified by the Biblical phrase 'an eye for an eye'.
    • The Sharia (Islamic penal code) rule of amputating a thief's stealing hand is a bloody mirror punishment.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mirror punishment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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