OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4526

penalty

/ˈpɛnəlti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pena
A legal sentence.
The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.
castigo
A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unla…
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