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[ noun ] the act of punishing

Used in print

("Editorials"...)

Contemplating these posthumous punishments , Stalin should not lose all hope .

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

It represents a punishment that he knows he deserves , but it also symbolizes most dramatically that he lives his life within the process of time .

The embarrassment of these theories over the naturalness of death is an illustration of the thesis that death cannot be only a punishment , for some termination seems necessary in a life that is lived within the natural_order of time and change .

If this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea of death as natural termination , the conclusion seems inevitable that temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state into which man is put by the will of the Creator .

If this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea of death as natural termination , the conclusion seems inevitable that temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state into which man is put by the will of the Creator .

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