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corporal punishment

punishment which is intended to cause physical pain to a person
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corporal punishment
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corporal punishment

Summary

corporal punishment ranks in the top 0.17% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,138 views/month, #133 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • corporal punishment is a type of punishment[2].
  • corporal punishment's Commons category is recorded as Corporal punishments[3].
  • corporal punishment comprises flogging[4].
  • corporal punishment comprises spanking[5].
  • corporal punishment comprises flagellation[6].
  • corporal punishment comprises human branding[7].
  • corporal punishment comprises mutilation[8].
  • corporal punishment's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Corporal punishment[9].
  • corporal punishment's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Corporal punishments[10].
  • corporal punishment's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[11].
  • corporal punishment's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[12].
  • corporal punishment's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • corporal punishment's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[14].
  • corporal punishment's different from is recorded as capital punishment[15].
  • corporal punishment's uses is recorded as equipment for corporal punishment[16].
  • corporal punishment's has goal is recorded as pain[17].
  • corporal punishment's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Human rights[18].
  • corporal punishment's WordLift URL is recorded as http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/corporal_punishment[19].

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Definition and Type

corporal punishment is a type of punishment[2].

Use and Application

Components include flogging[4], a punishment[20]; spanking[5]; flagellation[6], a punishment[21]; human branding[7], an activity[22]; and mutilation[8].

Why It Matters

corporal punishment ranks in the top 0.17% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,138 views/month, #133 of 77,819).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Norway

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  16. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . medicalrecords.com. medicalrecords.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Trivialist · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → corporal-punishment
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