penal
adjective
of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
penally
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a word derived from
penal.
Example Sentences
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Yet when it befalls me to be more moved with the voice than the words sung, I confess to have sinned penally, and then had rather not hear music.
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
By the committing of magisterial mistakes I am personally and penally committed—I prepare for my trial by calling in the assistance of the tailor and the perfumer—I am resolved to die like a gentleman.
From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat
Error in itself is not fatal to the inner sense of right; but Bruce’s error was not honest doubt, it was wilful self-deception, blindness of heart, first deliberately induced, then penally permitted.
From Julian Home by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
This right of academical citizenship continues five years, provided it be not voluntarily relinquished or penally forfeited.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
The "numbering among the transgressors" is equally true of any one who suffers penally for his belief, or who, innocent or little to blame himself, shares the fate of an offending community.
From The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules by Lionel Lisle
