castigation
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castigation
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- Something, such as loss, pain, or confinement, imposed for wrongdoing: chastisement, correction, discipline, penalty, punishment. See reward/punish/deserve.
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IN BRIEF: n. - Verbal punishment; A severe scolding.
Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.
— Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945)
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