Punishment vs. Sentence — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Punishment and Sentence
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Punishment
Punishment, commonly, is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, meted out by an authority—in contexts ranging from child discipline to criminal law—as a response and deterrent to a particular action or behavior that is deemed undesirable or unacceptable. It is, however, possible to distinguish between various different understandings of what punishment is.The reasoning for punishment may be to condition a child to avoid self-endangerment, to impose social conformity (in particular, in the contexts of compulsory education or military discipline), to defend norms, to protect against future harms (in particular, those from violent crime), and to maintain the law—and respect for rule of law—under which the social group is governed.
Sentence
A grammatical unit that is syntactically independent and has a subject that is expressed or, as in imperative sentences, understood and a predicate that contains at least one finite verb.
Punishment
The imposition of a penalty or deprivation for wrongdoing
The swift punishment of all offenders.
Sentence
The penalty imposed by a law court or other authority upon someone found guilty of a crime or other offense.
Punishment
A penalty imposed for wrongdoing
"The severity of the punishment must ... be in keeping with the kind of obligation which has been violated" (Simone Weil).
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Sentence
(Archaic) A maxim.
Punishment
Rough treatment or use
These old skis have taken a lot of punishment over the years.
Sentence
(Obsolete) An opinion, especially one given formally after deliberation.
Punishment
The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
The naughty children were given a punishment by their teachers.
Sentence
To impose a sentence on (a criminal defendant found guilty, for example).
Punishment
A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
A light punishment
A harsh punishement
Sentence
(dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
The court returned a sentence of guilt in the first charge, but innocence in the second.
Punishment
A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
Sentence
The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous child rapist.
Punishment
(figuratively) Any harsh treatment or experience; rough handling.
A vehicle that can take a lot of punishment
Sentence
A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
Punishment
The act of punishing.
Sentence
(obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
Punishment
Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.
I never gave them condign punishment.
The rewards and punishments of another life.
Sentence
(grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
The children were made to construct sentences consisting of nouns and verbs from the list on the chalkboard.
Punishment
A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.
Sentence
(logic) A formula with no free variables.
Punishment
Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment.
Sentence
(computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
Punishment
The act of punishing
Sentence
(obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
Sentence
(obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.
Sentence
A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.
Sentence
To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine.
Sentence
To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
Sentence
(obsolete) To utter sententiously.
Sentence
Sense; meaning; significance.
Tales of best sentence and most solace.
The discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence.
Sentence
An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
My sentence is for open war.
That by them [Luther's works] we may pass sentence upon his doctrines.
Sentence
A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
Sentence
In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judicial tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
Received the sentence of the law.
Sentence
A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
Sentence
A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.
He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
A king . . . understanding dark sentences.
Sentence
To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.
Sentence
To decree or announce as a sentence.
Sentence
To utter sententiously.
Sentence
A string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language;
He always spoke in grammatical sentences
Sentence
(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed;
The conviction came as no surprise
Sentence
The period of time a prisoner is imprisoned;
He served a prison term of 15 months
His sentence was 5 to 10 years
He is doing time in the county jail
Sentence
Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law;
He was condemned to ten years in prison
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