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somethingdarkerSome of the words below reference things that can also be crimes or that are, IMO, unethical and immoral as punishments. Some things that have been used as punishments (such as Torture) aren't listed here, instead see: Potential Titles: Law: Crime and Violence [category].
Admonish:
Trying to squeeze beauty into admonishment - Ana Bozicevic "Intervals of Please"
The admonition of a silver bell - Ernest Dowson "Benedictio Domini"
On me these admonitions you bestow - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Admonitions to the winds and seas - John Keats "Hyperion"
Amend.
Annul:
The annulling light of any pitiless dawn - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Annull'd the bond that sold the soul of man to man - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Legally annulled from his life - Steven David Justin Sills "Post Annulment 2"
Whose slow, annuling tide creeps nearer - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
Annul the blinding gesture of the sword - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"
Appease/Unappeased
Arrest.
Atone.
Bail:
Letting midnight out on bail - Langston Hughes "Jam Session"
Banish.
Behead.
Brand.
Cancel.
Censure:
Censured by our eyes - Christopher Marlowe "Hero and Leander"
To censure all with scornful eyes - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Lavater's Warning" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
And blot their censure with self-blaming - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: II"
Charge.
Clemency:
In the clemency of an autumn - Lucie Brock-Broido "Soul Keeping Company"
From Heaven distilled a clemency - Thomas Hardy "And There Was a Great Calm"
Condemn.
Confine.
Confiscate:
I come to confiscate your love - Katy Lederer "Love"
Constrain.
Conviction.
Demotion:
The universe demotes me, yet again - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"
The demotion of Pluto - Mary Soon Lee "I, Universe"
Discipline.
Disgrace.
Exclude/Exclusion.
Execute.
Exile.
Expel/Expulsion.
Expiation:
The plan of expiation is unchanged - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
And furnish expiation for the sin - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
The expiation journey toward peace - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
To expiate the beauty of his dream - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XI: The Passion-Flower"
Gallows.
Guillotine:
Whose breath whets the edge of the guillotine - Dana Levin "According to the Gospel of Yes"
With your round guillotine of a mouth - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"
Dangling his guillotine of dread - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"
Guillotines decide our least disputes - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"
Handcuff:
The handcuff of obligation - Ada Limon "The Lost Glove"
Hang/Hung.
Ignominy:
Of ignominy, malice and affront - Emma Lazarus "Saint Romualdo" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
Impale.
Imprison.
Incarceration:
For a solar system beyond sable incarceration - William Archila "Saturn's Country"
Interdict:
Interdict all vague emotion - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Where no tyrant's interdict can ban - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"
Jail.
Leniency:
The leniency of consideration - Dara Barrois/Dixon "The Pressure of the Moment"
Noose:
That sly angel whose halo is a noose in disguise - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
In a Noose of Light - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Narrows its halo into a noose - Rusty Morrison "Measurement Fable"
Like a noose of golden shadow - James Oppenheim "We Dead"
Outlaw.
Pardon.
Penalty:
No penalty the change attends - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]
The penalty of difference in the crowd - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
No matter what the penalty - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"
Penance.
Penitent.
Persecution:
Will not persecute you more - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
In the night of persecution - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Lucid persecution of delight - David Gray "The Moon I"
A meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"
Pillory:
Pilloried to their thrones of shame - Victor Hugo "Feuilles d'Automne" transl. by Roger Casement
Prison.
Punish.
Rebuke.
Reconcile.
Recrimination:
Desires which punish the landscape with recrimination - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Redeem/Redemption.
Reparation:
All my reparations made in darkness - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
Two thousand years of daily reparation - Richard Chenevix Trench "Lines: Written at the Village of Passignano, on the Lake of Thrasymene"
Repent.
Reprieve.
Reproach.
Restitution:
If the anvil seeks restitution - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Fred Williamson Stars as 'The Hammer'"
Retaliation:
'Tis just the injured should retaliate - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
To retaliate slaughter on them who slaughtered - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
You shall meet with strict retaliation - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Before I teach myself retaliation - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"
Retribution:
Scribbled with retribution - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"
Retribution frowning on his spear - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Retribution neither diminishes nor goes away - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Retribution reigns o'er earth's last day - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Sanction:
Crows & apples sanction their appeal - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Freedom in a sanctioned outing - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"
The potent sanction of her hand - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"
When ill shall sanction ill - Richard Chenevix Trench "Poland, 1831"
Scaffold.
Sentence.
Shun.
Subdue.
Trial.
Verdict.
Vindicate.
Whip.
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Admonish:
Trying to squeeze beauty into admonishment - Ana Bozicevic "Intervals of Please"
The admonition of a silver bell - Ernest Dowson "Benedictio Domini"
On me these admonitions you bestow - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Admonitions to the winds and seas - John Keats "Hyperion"
Amend.
Annul:
The annulling light of any pitiless dawn - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Annull'd the bond that sold the soul of man to man - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Legally annulled from his life - Steven David Justin Sills "Post Annulment 2"
Whose slow, annuling tide creeps nearer - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
Annul the blinding gesture of the sword - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"
Appease/Unappeased
Arrest.
Atone.
Bail:
Letting midnight out on bail - Langston Hughes "Jam Session"
Banish.
Behead.
Brand.
Cancel.
Censure:
Censured by our eyes - Christopher Marlowe "Hero and Leander"
To censure all with scornful eyes - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Lavater's Warning" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
And blot their censure with self-blaming - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: II"
Charge.
Clemency:
In the clemency of an autumn - Lucie Brock-Broido "Soul Keeping Company"
From Heaven distilled a clemency - Thomas Hardy "And There Was a Great Calm"
Condemn.
Confine.
Confiscate:
I come to confiscate your love - Katy Lederer "Love"
Constrain.
Conviction.
Demotion:
The universe demotes me, yet again - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"
The demotion of Pluto - Mary Soon Lee "I, Universe"
Discipline.
Disgrace.
Exclude/Exclusion.
Execute.
Exile.
Expel/Expulsion.
Expiation:
The plan of expiation is unchanged - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
And furnish expiation for the sin - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
The expiation journey toward peace - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
To expiate the beauty of his dream - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XI: The Passion-Flower"
Gallows.
Guillotine:
Whose breath whets the edge of the guillotine - Dana Levin "According to the Gospel of Yes"
With your round guillotine of a mouth - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"
Dangling his guillotine of dread - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"
Guillotines decide our least disputes - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"
Handcuff:
The handcuff of obligation - Ada Limon "The Lost Glove"
Hang/Hung.
Ignominy:
Of ignominy, malice and affront - Emma Lazarus "Saint Romualdo" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
Impale.
Imprison.
Incarceration:
For a solar system beyond sable incarceration - William Archila "Saturn's Country"
Interdict:
Interdict all vague emotion - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Where no tyrant's interdict can ban - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"
Jail.
Leniency:
The leniency of consideration - Dara Barrois/Dixon "The Pressure of the Moment"
Noose:
That sly angel whose halo is a noose in disguise - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
In a Noose of Light - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Narrows its halo into a noose - Rusty Morrison "Measurement Fable"
Like a noose of golden shadow - James Oppenheim "We Dead"
Outlaw.
Pardon.
Penalty:
No penalty the change attends - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]
The penalty of difference in the crowd - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
No matter what the penalty - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"
Penance.
Penitent.
Persecution:
Will not persecute you more - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
In the night of persecution - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Lucid persecution of delight - David Gray "The Moon I"
A meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"
Pillory:
Pilloried to their thrones of shame - Victor Hugo "Feuilles d'Automne" transl. by Roger Casement
Prison.
Punish.
Rebuke.
Reconcile.
Recrimination:
Desires which punish the landscape with recrimination - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Redeem/Redemption.
Reparation:
All my reparations made in darkness - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
Two thousand years of daily reparation - Richard Chenevix Trench "Lines: Written at the Village of Passignano, on the Lake of Thrasymene"
Repent.
Reprieve.
Reproach.
Restitution:
If the anvil seeks restitution - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Fred Williamson Stars as 'The Hammer'"
Retaliation:
'Tis just the injured should retaliate - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
To retaliate slaughter on them who slaughtered - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
You shall meet with strict retaliation - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Before I teach myself retaliation - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"
Retribution:
Scribbled with retribution - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"
Retribution frowning on his spear - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Retribution neither diminishes nor goes away - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Retribution reigns o'er earth's last day - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Sanction:
Crows & apples sanction their appeal - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Freedom in a sanctioned outing - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"
The potent sanction of her hand - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"
When ill shall sanction ill - Richard Chenevix Trench "Poland, 1831"
Scaffold.
Sentence.
Shun.
Subdue.
Trial.
Verdict.
Vindicate.
Whip.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
