incapacitative

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Adjective[edit]

incapacitative (comparative more incapacitative, superlative most incapacitative)

  1. Of or pertaining to being incapacitated.
    • 1989, Justice Blackmun in Mistretta v. United States, 488 U.S. 361
      [I]t states that punishment should serve retributive, educational, deterrent, and incapacitative goals.