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Punishing vs Enabling - What's the difference?

punishing | enabling |

As verbs the difference between punishing and enabling

is that punishing is while enabling is .

As an adjective punishing

is that inflicts punishment.

As a noun punishing

is punishment.

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

    enabling

    English

    Verb

    (wikipedia enabling) (head)