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"Castigation"
Keywords:
chastiser
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punishment
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reproof
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emendation
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timent
Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.
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Emendation; correction.
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verbal punishment
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Castigation (from the Latin castigatio), or chastisement (via the French châtiment), is the infliction of severe (moral or corporal) punishment. One who administers a castigation is a castigator or chastiser.
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Keywords:
scolding
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severe
a severe scolding
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