Punishing vs Punish - What's the difference?
punishing | punish |
punishment
* 2011 , Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology (page 303)
To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
To cause great harm to. (a punishing blow )
To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness.
As verbs the difference between punishing and punish
is that punishing is while punish is to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.As an adjective punishing
is that inflicts punishment.As a noun punishing
is punishment.punishing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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