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unpunishable

adj

Etymology

From un- + punishable.

  1. derived from puniō — “to inflict punishment upon”
  2. inherited from punischen
  3. suffixed as punishable — “punish + -able”
  4. prefixed as unpunishable — “un + punishable”

Definitions

  1. Not punishable

    Not punishable; unable to be punished.

    • If she had claimed that offenders were unpunishable she would, of course, have come into conflict with the provisions of most modern legal codes...

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for unpunishable. 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