telishment

Meaning

Noun

The act or institution of punishing the innocent for the sake of providing deterrence.

Origin

Coined by John Rawls in his 1955 paper “Two Concepts of Rules”. Probably a portmanteau of the Ancient Greek τέλος and the English punishment. Compare telish.

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