noncorporal
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- Not corporal.
- 1988 August 12, Albert Williams, “Take Time to Listen”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Whiting takes the language of "enlightened" (noncorporal) methods of disciplining children and turns it into a Kafkaesque nightmare of ambiguous threats, disorienting double messages, and absurd lures as the goal of making the boy apologize becomes absorbed into the family members' struggle for authority and justification.