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Demanding vs Punishing - What's the difference?

demanding | punishing |

As adjectives the difference between demanding and punishing

is that demanding is requiring much endurance, strength, or patience while punishing is that inflicts punishment.

As verbs the difference between demanding and punishing

is that demanding is while punishing is .

As a noun punishing is

punishment.

demanding

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience.

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    Verb

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    punishing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That inflicts punishment
  • arduous, gruelling

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • punishment
  • * 2011 , Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology (page 303)
    • We may not be convinced that God is as involved in historical punishings as the prophet claims, and we may have a strong negative reaction to the claims made for how God acts