違則受到某種懲罰;違則以…論處
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with the threat of having sth done to you as a punishment if you do not obey
and on pain of excommunication...
has demanded that he break the engagement on pain of disinheritance.
釋義來自《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》第 9 版