castigation
noun
severe criticism or harsh scolding; censure.
self-castigation
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a word derived from
castigation.
Example Sentences
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His pouty Elvis face folded into a frown of self-castigation.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2018
Reflecting on this controversy need not lead only to self-castigation.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2016
The need for a certain amount of self-castigation is implanted in all of us, and it is satisfied in the form of confession.
From The Patient Observer And His Friends by Simeon Strunsky
The primitive monks, who practised self-castigation because of the world-evil, experienced a wonderful purification of soul, a new vision of God, and an extraordinary sense of unity with all men, living and dead.
From The Agony of the Church (1917) by Nikolai Velimirović
This laudable self-castigation she persevered in for three days long, when her hunger had increased to such a pitch that she could no longer remain quiet in the castle.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
