Penal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PENAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• pertaining to punishment
• relating to, used for, or prescribing the punishment of offenders under the legal system
• (of an act or offence) punishable by law.
• (especially of taxation or interest rates) extremely severe
• of or used in punishment
• Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
• Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
• Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
• Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
• of or relating to punishment
• serving as or designed to impose punishment
• subject to punishment by law

Words related to PENAL

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How to use PENAL in a sentence

• There is something almost incredible in the penal infatuation which brought about her fall.
• Murder is almost unknown and the punishment of death is banished from the penal code.
• While in the African penal settlement the daughter of a Spanish officer fell in love with him.
• Jabez Balfour represented Croydon for many years, until he was sentenced to penal servitude for fraud.
• A military and penal settlement had been established at Port Essington by the Government of New South Wales, to which colony the whole territory then belonged.
• But it is no use being angry and trying to hang a threat of penal servitude over the heads of the directors of shipping companies.
• The penalty annexed to it is in the first instance, corrective, not penal.
• They were both in due course put upon their trials, and sent into penal servitude.
• Davitt was, on July 11th, 1870, sentenced to fifteen years, and Wilson to seven years penal servitude.
• There is no doubt but that their treatment during their long term of penal servitude seriously affected the health of several of the Irish political prisoners.
• Of course, no such thing is possible, and the end was riot, murder, and penal servitude.
• The criminal was the one important witness of Tokugawa penal law.
• Without penal laws, no society of any size could exist for a day.
• The Catholics during all this time were under the ban of penal laws.
• Lastly, no lodge can exercise penal jurisdiction over its own Master, for he is alone responsible for his conduct to the Grand Lodge.
• We seek to prevent in some measure the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age.
• I might have told the judge he was an ass, but then I should have had penal servitude for bank robbery, and that is worse than death.
• The Comprachicos have left their traces in the penal laws of Spain and England.
• About this time an undesirable lot of immigrants began to arrive, especially from the penal colonies of New South Wales.
• The expediency of making it a penal offense to bring such persons to the United States is submitted to your consideration.
• Have you attempted to govern America by penal statutes? You made fifteen for Wales.
• The latter seems to have served as a penal colony rather than an integral portion of the Empire.
• One of these liberties was to persecute Catholics in accordance with the penal Acts of 1560.
• Civilians however, are only subject to the ordinary penal laws, and those who are not natives, can appeal against any decision of a Court Martial.

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