telishment
noun/ˈtɛlɪʃmənt/
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)ishment. Compare telish.
Definitions
The act or institution of punishing the innocent for the sake of providing deterrence.
- And I would say the same about punishments — not telishments, but punishments — in which the penalty is far too severe.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for telishment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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