repunishmentn.
/ˌriːˈpʌnɪʃm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌriˈpənɪʃm(ə)nt/ The action or practice of punishing a person or offence again; an instance of this.
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1549 Latimer's 2nd Serm. To Rdr. sig. A.iiii When he comes he wil..recompence his long sufferaunce wyth greuous repunishmentes.
1838 Minutes of Evid. Rep. Sel. Comm. Transportation 15 in Parl. Papers 1837–8 XXII. 1 They are kept separate from the other prisoners who are in the barracks for re-punishment.
1896 Railway Herald June 217 We thought it a just re-punishment of the sin he committed when he informed a young senorita..that I was already engaged to different ones in six places.
1986 Law & Society Rev. 20 567 Clearly, asking individuals..why they subsequently curtailed criminal activity could provide meaningful insights into questions such as whether they feared future repunishment.
2004 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 11 July a1 While defense lawyers say hospital confinement after prison amounts to re-punishment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that a similar law in Kansas was constitutional.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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