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Castigation

noun
1.
A severe scolding.  Synonyms: bawling out, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over, upbraiding.
2.
Verbal punishment.  Synonym: chastisement.






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"Castigation" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought the culprit; but he could not decide in which form his verbal castigation ...
— Syd Belton - The Boy who would not go to Sea • George Manville Fenn

... melancholy triumph, uncovering a third rather large mass of clay, 'you shall behold something which will show you the humility and discernment of your friend. You will realise that he, like a true artist again, feels the need and the use of self-castigation. Behold!' ...
— On the Eve • Ivan Turgenev

... administered the inhuman castigation, Landry (the owner of the girl) pleaded guilty, but urged, in extenuation, that the girl had dared to make an effort for that freedom which her instincts, drawn from the veins of her abuser, had taught ...
— Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive • Alf Burnett

... Drawcansir.—His attacks on Mrs. Robinson were unmanly, and even those on Mr. Merry and the Della-Cruscan School were much more ferocious than the occasion warranted. A little affectation and quaintness of style did not merit such severity of castigation.[C] As a translator, Mr. Gifford's version of the Roman satirist is the baldest, and, in parts, the most offensive of all others. We do not know why he attempted it, unless he had got it in his head that he ...
— The Spirit of the Age - Contemporary Portraits • William Hazlitt

... while I champion your cause, I am assailed, harassed and well-nigh pierced through and through. Which censures I hear and mark, God knows, with equal mind: and, though to you belongs all my defence, yet I mean not to be niggard of my own powers, but rather, without dealing out to them the castigation they deserve, to give them such slight answer as may secure my ears some respite of their clamour; and that without delay; seeing that, if already, though I have not completed the third part of my work, they ...
— The Decameron, Volume I • Giovanni Boccaccio


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