Assertion: torture | /r/ObjectUse | used as a form of punishment
Facets:
value: during the middle ages
type: TEMPORAL
value: in part constitutive, purpose
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: And when torture – as opposed to, for example, flogging as a form of corporal punishment – is used as a form of punishment it typically has as a proximate, and in part constitutive, purpose to break the victim’s will.
text: During the Middle Ages, torture was also employed as a form of punishment.