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CASTIGATION

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Definitions of castigation in various dictionaries:

noun - a severe scolding

noun - verb al punishment

CASTIGATION - Castigation (from the Latin castigatio) or chastisement (via the French châtiment) is the infliction of severe (moral or corporal) punishment. One ...


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Possible Dictionary Clues
Full bDefinitionb of bCASTIGATEb. transitive verb. : to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism. castigation kas-t-g-shn noun. castigator kas-t-g-tr noun.
verbal punishment
a severe scolding
Corrective punishment chastisement reproof pungent criticism.
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Castigation description
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.
* In earlier times, castigation specifically meant restoring one to a religiously pure state, called chastity. In ancient Rome, it was also a term for the magistrate called a censor (in the original sense, rather than the later politicized evolution), who castigated in the name of the pagan state religion but with the authority of the 'pious' state.
* In Christian times, this terminology was adopted but roughly restricted to the physical sphere: chastity became a matter of approved sexual conduct, castigation usually meaning physical punishment, either as a form of penance, as a voluntary pious exercise (see mortification of the flesh) or as educational or other coercion, while the use for other (e.g. verbal) punishments (and criticism etc.) is now often perceived as metaphorical.
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