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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "castigation" in a sentence

    castigation example sentences

    castigation


    1. of the baby was resulted in Helga’s castigation by several staff mem-


    2. “Remember, Christine, castigation and


    3. The Railroad Company had the wisdom to believe that often "the pen is mightier than the sword" and that it would be wise for them to avoid public castigation in the press by quietly providing a just compensation to you


    4. castigation of the Douglas men


    5. By this time the cuadrillero had succeeded in lighting the lamp, and came in to see the man that he thought had been killed; and as Sancho caught sight of him at the door, seeing him coming in his shirt, with a cloth on his head, and a lamp in his hand, and a very forbidding countenance, he said to his master, "Senor, can it be that this is the enchanted Moor coming back to give us more castigation if there be anything still left in the ink-bottle?"


    6. The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a countrystile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature and the injunction upon her in the event of a yearning, ardently and ineffectually entertained, to place her hand against that part of her person which long usage has consecrated as the seat of castigation


    7. All this is printed in hundreds of thousands of copies, and under the name of Christian doctrine is taught by compulsion to every Russian, who is obliged to receive it under penalty of castigation


    8. When resistance to Britain is submission to France, I protest against the castigation of our colonial infancy being applied in the independent manhood of America


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    Synonyms for "castigation"

    castigation chastisement bawling out chewing out dressing down earful going-over upbraiding reprimand reproof censure stricture rebuke invective

    "castigation" definitions

    a severe scolding


    verbal punishment