01 a. Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.
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Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.“If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence.” — I. Taylor.“We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand.” — Bagehot.