What does the word infliction mean?
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A punishment; imposition.
Part of speech: noun
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Usage examples for infliction
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The parents had been too lenient in drawing the line at the infliction of bodily pain. – The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
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Still I can recollect but one instance of corporal punishment, whether the subject were male or female, in which the infliction was not on the bare back with the raw hide, or a similar instrument, the subject being tied during the operation to a post or tree. – The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus by American Anti-Slavery Society
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Of course, punishment in the sense of the infliction of pain merely because certain actions have been committed, no Determinist would countenance. – Determinism or Free-Will? by Chapman Cohen