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noun

Law. physical punishment, as flogging, inflicted on the body of one convicted of a crime: formerly included the death penalty, sentencing to a term of years, etc.

physical punishment, as spanking, inflicted on a child by an adult in authority.

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Origin of corporal punishment

First recorded in 1575–85

Words nearby corporal punishment

corpn., corpocracy, corpora, corporal, Corporal of Horse, corporal punishment, corporal's guard, corporate, corporate anorexia, corporate culture, corporate governance

How to use corporal punishment in a sentence

In an act of corporal punishment that we at the Daily Beast do not condone, Joseph grabbed Him by the ear and “pulled hard.”
Was Baby Jesus A Holy Terror?|Candida Moss|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
When Christians and Hindus are accused of insulting Islam in Pakistan, the punishment is harsh.
Disco Mullah Blasphemy Row Highlights Pakistan’s Hypocrisy|Shaheen Pasha|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Though, some would still indulge, even with the risk of punishment.
Beaten By His Church for Being Gay|Justin Jones|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the 1980s, your community allowed hundreds of thousands of us to die because you believed AIDS was divine punishment.
Do LGBTs Owe Christians an Olive Branch? Try The Other Way Around|Jay Michaelson|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

By the end of his life, the memories of corporal punishment at the hands of his teachers were vivid.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The fact that the day following the punishment parade was a Sunday brought about a certain relaxation from discipline.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.
Children's Ways|James Sully
But once Austria was disposed of, Prussia and Russia met their punishment for having given her secret or open aid.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Punishment still comes to us from those whom we would circumvent.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
It was he who deserved punishment—not the sufferer with his calamities imposed upon him by his erring sire.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various

British Dictionary definitions for corporal punishment

corporal punishment

noun

punishment of a physical nature, such as caning, flogging, or beating

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corporal punishment

Origin of corporal punishment

Words nearby corporal punishment

Words related to corporal punishment

How to use corporal punishment in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for corporal punishment