punition
Noun

punition

  1. (obsolete) punishment
    • 1845, The English Review (volume 4, page 145)
      The corrections of the scholars consist of penitences and punitions; the former are, keeping a boy standing, or on his knees, or in an ignominious place; the latter are pensums (i. e. impositions), or, rarely, the use of a leather thong on the hand.
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