chastisement
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(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French chastiement, from the verb chastier, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin castīgō
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Noun
chastisement (countable and uncountable, plural chastisements)
- The act of chastising; rebuke; punishment.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 1,[1]
- Besides, the King hath wasted all his rods
- On late offenders, that he now doth lack
- The very instruments of chastisement;
- So that his power, like to a fangless lion,
- May offer, but not hold.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Isaiah 53:5,[2]
- But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
- 1820, Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,”[3]
- All this he called “doing his duty by their parents;” and he never inflicted a chastisement without following it by the assurance, so consolatory to the smarting urchin, that “he would remember it and thank him for it the longest day he had to live.”
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case,[4]
- Into the details of the infamy at which I thus connived (for even now I can scarce grant that I committed it) I have no design of entering; I mean but to point out the warnings and the successive steps with which my chastisement approached.
- 1929, Winston Churchill, Hansard, 24 December, 1929,[5]
- It seems to me that as he does not respond to this extremely conciliatory treatment it may be well to try whether a change of treatment might not produce a more satisfactory result. If praise and courtesy only result in narrow, bitter partisanship, perhaps a little well-merited chastisement may procure some geniality.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 1,[1]