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n. The act of punishing; punishment

n. The act of punishing.

n. The act of penalizing.

n. the act of punishing

""Clearly there was a 'penalization' in our study, and that's reflected in the high periprocedural MACE rate."

social control   

music    penance    castigation    imprisonment    stick    cruel and unusual punishment    correction    chastisement    economic strangulation    self-mortification   

punishment    penalty