Chastisement
[tʃæ'staizmənt]
Definition
(n.) The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Punishment, chastening, correction.
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Examples
- I did not need to be guided to the well-known room, to which I had so often been summoned for chastisement or reprimand in former days. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But you said, Lizzie,' observed Bella, returning to her subject when she had administered this chastisement, 'that you would lose, besides. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Miss Ingram ought to be clement, for she has it in her power to inflict a chastisement beyond mortal endurance. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Murders, revolts, chastisements, disasters, cunning alliances, and base betrayals, and no Herodotus to record them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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