Meanings
adjectivepœnological (not comparable)
- archaicnot comparableArchaic spelling of penological.
The anthor’s exteusive experience as a magistrate gives peculiar interest to his views on the pœnological side of criminality.
1893, Arthur MacDonald, chapter II, in Abnormal Man, page 46
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