FREEDOM FROM CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freedom from cruel and unusual punishment mean? 

• FREEDOM FROM CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT (noun)
  The noun FREEDOM FROM CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT has 1 sense:

1. a right guaranteed by the 8th amendment to the US Constitution

  Familiarity information: FREEDOM FROM CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREEDOM FROM CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A right guaranteed by the 8th amendment to the US Constitution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("freedom from cruel and unusual punishment" is a kind of...):

civil right (right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)