punishment vs sentence

punishment

noun
  • A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime. 

  • Any harsh treatment or experience; rough handling. 

  • The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction. 

  • A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution 

sentence

noun
  • A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime. 

  • A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation. 

  • The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. 

  • Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar. 

  • A formula with no free variables. 

verb
  • To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence. 

  • To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment. 

How often have the words punishment and sentence occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )