punishment
dieNounWord details
- German meaning
- Epikie bezeichnet die situationsgerechte Auslegung eines Gesetzes, um in Härtefällen eine gerechtere Lösung zu finden.
- English meaning
- Epikeia refers to the situation-appropriate interpretation of a law to find a fairer solution in cases of hardship.
- Synonym
- Billigkeit, Nachsicht
- German example
- Der Richter entschied im Sinne der Epikie, um dem Angeklagten eine unbillige Strafe zu ersparen.
- English example
- The judge decided in the sense of epikeia to spare the defendant an unfair punishment.
- Type
- Noun
- Article
- die
- Singular Form
- die Epikie
- Plural Form
- None
Related words
- Strafe
punishment
- Bestrafung
punishment
- Strafantrag
application for punishment
- Verhältnismässigkeit
Proportionality
- Verhältnismäßigkeit
proportionality
- steinigen
To stone
- Enthauptung
Beheading
- Bestrafung
punishment
- Züchtigung
Corporal punishment refers to a punishment, often physical, used as an educational measure.
- Ungehorsam
Disobedience
- Spießrutenlauf
A Spießrutenlauf is a punishment in which the person being punished must run between two rows of people who strike them.
- Schandmantel
A pillory was a medieval punishment device used for public humiliation.
- exekutieren
To execute means to put someone to death by state order, usually as punishment for a serious crime.
- strafbar
Punishable
- unverhältnismäßig
Disproportionate
- straffrei
exempt from punishment
- gelinde
mild, gentle
- unbotmäßig
Disobedient, insubordinate
- brutalstmöglich
As brutally as possible means to do something in the most brutal, cruel, and merciless way.
- Strafe
Penalty, punishment
- Strafrecht
Criminal law is a field of law that deals with criminal offenses and their punishment.
- Halseisen
Pillory, neck iron
- Prügelstrafe
Corporal punishment
- Verdamnis
Damnation refers to the state of eternal punishment and separation from God, often in a religious context.
- Abstrafung
Punishment
- Vehme
Vehmic court
- Karwatsche
A karwatsche is a whip, often made of leather, formerly used for driving cattle or as a means of punishment.
- Kerkerstrafe
Imprisonment in a dungeon
- proportional
Proportional
- unverdient
Undeserved
- punitiv
Punitive means punishing or aimed at punishment.
- Auspeitschung
Flogging
- Steinigung
Stoning
- Verdammniß
Damnation
- Giftspritze
A lethal injection is an injection with a deadly dose of poison, used for the execution of death row inmates.