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mispunish

verb

Etymology

From mis- + punish.

  1. derived from puniō — “to inflict punishment upon”
  2. inherited from punischen
  3. prefixed as mispunish — “mis + punish”

Definitions

  1. To punish inappropriately

    To punish inappropriately; to give the wrong amount or type of punishment, or to punish someone for an offense they did not commit.

    • Multiple punitive damages are likely to mispunish defendants.
    • Some people do not correctly apply the natural law, or they tend to be biased when judging in their own cases, or they tend to mispunish, overpunish, etc.
    • Ordinarily, hate censorship theorists would be the first to distrust a law that could so mispunish – but this is not the case when it comes to hate speech law.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mispunish. 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