self-chastisement

noun

The act of chastising oneself.

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Meanings

nounself-chastisement (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe act of chastising oneself.

    1892, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Phase the Fourth, Chapter 28, […] in almost a terror of ecstasy Tess divined that, despite her many months of lonely self-chastisement, wrestlings, communings, schemes to lead a future of austere isolation, love's counsel would prevail.

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    Wani rarely blushed, or showed embarrassment of any kind, beyond the murmured self-chastisement with which he offered a seat to a lady or confessed his ignorance of some trivial thing.

    2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN

Origin

From self- + chastisement.

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