Definition of Penal

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Definition of Penal

Penal

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.

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Penal Quotations

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Lord Byron

The world is a penal institution.
Taylor Caldwell

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
Charles Rangel

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.
Roger Mahony

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
William J. Brennan

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.
James McHenry

I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.
Frank Morgan

Penal Translations

penal in French is criminel
penal in German is strafrechtlich, Straf-
penal in Spanish is penal

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