Penalization: alternatives and connections

An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.

To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would…

The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.

To charge, bind, or command, solemnly, as if under oath, or under the penalty of a curse; to appeal to in the most solemn or impressiv…

The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or volunta…

To confirm; to assure.

To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced th…

The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the…

To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.

To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdo…

A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.

A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment.

A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.

To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single…

To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.