telishment

/ˈtɛlɪʃmənt/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Try to imagine, then, an institution (which we may call “telishment”) which is such that the officials set up by it have authority to arrange a trial for the condemnation of an innocent man whenever they are of the opinion that doing so would be in the best interests of society."
"And I would say the same about punishments — not telishments, but punishments — in which the penalty is far too severe."

Coined by John Rawls in his 1955 paper “Two Concepts of Rules”. Probably a portmanteau of the Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “result; end; loosely, the greater good”) and the English (pun)ishment. Compare telish.

telishments (plural)

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