"mispunish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "mis- + punish",
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      "form": "mispunishes",
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      "form": "mispunished",
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          "ref": "1993, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice, The Multiparty, Multiforum Jurisdiction Act of 1991, page 236",
          "text": "Multiple punitive damages are likely to mispunish defendants.",
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          "ref": "1998, N. Scott Arnold, “Affirmative Action and the Demands of Justice”, in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr, Jeffrey Paul, editors, Problems of Market Liberalism, volume 15, page 145",
          "text": "Some people do not correctly apply the natural law, or they tend to be biased when judging in their own cases, or they tend to mispunish, overpunish, etc.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Stefan Braun, Democracy Off Balance, page 109",
          "text": "Ordinarily, hate censorship theorists would be the first to distrust a law that could so mispunish – but this is not the case when it comes to hate speech law.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Edward P. Stringham, Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice",
          "text": "But what is a guilty person's complaint against an unreliable procedure? That it is too likely to mispunish him?",
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      "glosses": [
        "To punish inappropriately; to give the wrong amount or type of punishment, or to punish someone for an offense they did not commit."
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