First Known Use: 15th century
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punition
noun pu·ni·tion \pyü-ˈni-shən\
Definition of PUNITION
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Origin of PUNITION
Middle English punicion, from Anglo-French, from Latin punition-, punitio, from punire
Rhymes with PUNITION
addition, admission, ambition, attrition, audition, beautician, clinician, cognition, coition, commission, condition, contrition, demission, dentition, dismission, Domitian, edition, emission, ethician, fruition, ignition, Kittitian, lenition, logician, magician, Mauritian, monition, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, omission, optician, partition, patrician, perdition, permission, petition, Phoenician, physician, Politian, position, remission, rendition, sedition, submission, suspicion, tactician, technician, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition
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