Chastisement: alternatives and connections

Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commissio…

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The act of punishing.

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To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove;…

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Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval.

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Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.

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Refutation; confutation; contradiction.

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To chide; to reprove.

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To chide; to reprove.

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Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.

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of Chasten

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The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.

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