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24%6 Originator of the phrase "Let the punishment fit the offense"
noun

• a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC)

• a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em

24%8 Extreme physical pain inflicted as punishment or punishment
noun

• extreme mental distress

• unbearable physical pain

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

• the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason

verb

• torment emotionally or mentally

• subject to torture

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New York Times04 Jan 1983 Down 37 THECRIME
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