"punitory" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more punitory",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most punitory",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "punitory (comparative more punitory, superlative most punitory)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued",
          "text": "God […] may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1780, Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation",
          "text": "the former, a simply imperative law; the other a punitory: but the punitory, if it commands the punishment to be inflicted, and does not merely permit it, is as truly imperative as the other",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "punitive; serving to punish"
      ],
      "id": "en-punitory-en-adj-OI6G6Ygb",
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          "punitive",
          "punitive"
        ],
        [
          "punish",
          "punish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) punitive; serving to punish"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpju.nɪ.tɔɹ.i/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "punitory"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more punitory",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most punitory",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "punitory (comparative more punitory, superlative most punitory)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued",
          "text": "God […] may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1780, Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation",
          "text": "the former, a simply imperative law; the other a punitory: but the punitory, if it commands the punishment to be inflicted, and does not merely permit it, is as truly imperative as the other",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "punitive; serving to punish"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
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        ],
        [
          "punish",
          "punish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) punitive; serving to punish"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpju.nɪ.tɔɹ.i/",
      "tags": [
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}