| Main Entry: | penalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | punishment |
Synonyms: |
amends, amercement, cost, damages, disadvantage, discipline, dues, fall, fine, forfeit, forfeiture, handicap, mortification, mulct, price, rap, retribution |
Antonyms: |
award, forgiveness, pardon, reward |
| Concept: | Penalty. |
| Category: | 5. Institutions |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
penalty; retribution (punishment); pain, pains and penalties; weregild, wergild; peine forte et dure; penance (atonement); the devil to pay., fine, mulet, amercement; forfeit, forfeiture; escheat, damages, deodand, sequestration, confiscation, premunire; doomage [U.S.].
-verbs
fine, mulet, amerce, sconce, confiscate; sequestrate, sequester; escheat; estreat, forfeit.
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| Main Entry: | deserts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | what is due one |
Synonyms: |
chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, compensation, deserving, discipline, disciplining, due, get hers, get his, guerdon, lumps, meed, merit, payment, penalty, punishment, recompense, requital, retribution, return, revenge, reward, right, talion, what is coming to one, what one is asking for |
| Main Entry: | forfeit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something given as sacrifice |
Synonyms: |
cost, damages, fine, loss, mulct, penalty, relinquishment |
Antonyms: |
gain, victory, win |
| Main Entry: | handicap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
Synonyms: |
bulge, edge*, favor, head start, odds, penalty, points, start, upper hand, vantage |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage, drawback, impairment, limitation, restriction, shortcoming |
| Main Entry: | justice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lawfulness, fairness |
Synonyms: |
amends, appeal, authority, authorization, charter, code, compensation, consideration, constitutionality, correction, credo, creed, decree, due process, equity, evenness, fair play, fair treatment, hearing, honesty, impartiality, integrity, judicatory, judicature, justness, law, legal process, legality, legalization, legitimacy, litigation, penalty, reasonableness, recompense, rectitude, redress, reparation, review, right, rule, sanction, sentence, square deal, truth |
| Notes: | revenge is personal and justice is societal |
Antonyms: |
illegality, injustice, lawlessness, partiality, unethicalness, unfairness |
| Main Entry: | penance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reparation for wrong |
Synonyms: |
absolution, atonement, attrition, compensation, compunction, confession, contrition, expiation, forgiveness, hair shirt, mortification, penalty, penitence, punishment, purgation, remorse, remorsefulness, repentance, retribution, rue, ruth, sackcloth and ashes, self-flagellation, shrift, sorrow, suffering |
| Main Entry: | price |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consequences of action |
Synonyms: |
cost, expense, penalty, sacrifice, toll |
Antonyms: |
cause |
| Main Entry: | sanction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | embargo, punishment |
Synonyms: |
ban, boycott, coercive measure, command, decree, injunction, penalty, punitive measure, sentence, writ |
Antonyms: |
award, honor, reward |
| Main Entry: | scourge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plague, torment |
Synonyms: |
affliction, bane, correction, curse, infliction, misfortune, penalty, pest, pestilence, punishment, terror, visitation |
Antonyms: |
advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, delight, happiness |