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 [[File:Naughty.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A candidate for [[exemplary damages]], yesterday.]]
-}}In which a court becomes unusually censorious, and departs from its usual role of merely ''compensating'' victims of civil wrongdoing, and proactively ''punishes'' a wrongdoer for its naughtiness, independently of any compensatable loss it has caused. Not to be confused with [[aggravated damages]], which address unusual distress that he may have caused the victim, and therefore are still compensatory in nature, or [[consequential loss]], that speculative “oh-yeah-Jimmy-Hill” style damages for profits you ''might'' have made elsewhere had you not been busy being breached at under this contract.
+}}{{d|Exemplary damages|/ɪgˈzɛmpləri ˈdæmɪʤɪz/|n|}}
+Tort, and non-contractual civil wrongs:
+In which a court becomes unusually censorious, and departs from its usual role of merely ''compensating'' victims of civil wrongdoing, and proactively ''punishes'' a wrongdoer for its naughtiness, independently of any compensable loss it has caused. Not, generally, available as a remedy for [[breach of contract]].
+Not to be confused with [[aggravated damages]], which address unusual distress that he may have caused the victim, and therefore are still compensatory in nature, or [[consequential loss]], that speculative “oh-yeah-Jimmy-Hill” style damages for profits you ''might'' have made elsewhere had you not been busy being breached at under this contract.
 {{Punitive damages capsule}}