punition

1. (obsolete) punishmentExamples: "Yee judges vpon earth, let our iuste punitions Teach you to shake off bribes, and kepe your handes pure."; "The corrections of the scholars consist of penitences and punitions; the former are, keeping a boy standing, or on his knees, or in an ignominious place; the latter are pensums (i. e. impositions), or, rarely, the use of a leather thong on the hand."countableobsoleteuncountable