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corporal punishment

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The definition of corporal punishment is physical punishment.

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When a child is beaten in school for misbehaving, this is an example of corporal punishment.

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See corporal punishment in Webster's New World College Dictionary

punishment inflicted directly on the body, as flogging: now usually distinguished from capital punishment, imprisonment, etc.

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