Definition of Chastisement

Chastisement

The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.

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Chastisement Quotations

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
Horace Mann

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.
Fanny Kemble

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
Ernest Dimnet

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Chastisement Translations

chastisement in French is punition
chastisement in Italian is castigo
chastisement in Spanish is escarmiento
chastisement in Swedish is tuktan, straff

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