punitive (punitiv)

[ The punitive part of repentance is resolved on, and begun, and put forward into good degrees of progre . Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 70. The penal code then would consist principally of pun i tive laws, involving the imperative matter of the whole number of civil laws: along with which would probably also be found various ma es of expository matter, appertaining, not to the civil, but to the punitory laws. Bentham , Introd. to Morals and Legislation, xvii. 29, note. Punitive damages. Same as exemplary damages (which see, under damage ).