telish
verb/ˈtɛlɪʃ/
Etymology
Coined by John Rawls in his 1955 paper “Two Concepts of Rules”. Probably a portmanteau of the Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “result”, “end”, loosely “the greater good”) and the English (pun)ish, after telishment.
Definitions
Punish (an innocent person) for the sake of deterrence
Punish (an innocent person) for the sake of deterrence; subject (a person) to telishment.
- How is one to limit the risks involved in allowing such systematic deception? How is one to avoid giving anything short of complete discretion to the authorities to telish anyone they like?
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for telish. 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