Definition of Infliction

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Definition of Infliction
	Infliction The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment. That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc. Related Definitions: Act, As, Calamity, Disgrace, Imposed, Imposing, Inflicted, Inflicting, Infliction, Is, Of, Or, Punishment, That, The, Torment, Which

Infliction Quotations

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand Russell

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
John Yoo

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
William J. Brennan

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