Chastisement

/ˈt͡ʃæstəzmənt/

Synonyms for "chastisement" (40 found)

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Noun(3 words)
disciplinedivine punishmentmoral retribution

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apocalyptic chastisementbiblical plaguesdemeritfinepublic rebukesuspensionverbal reprimandwritten admonition

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corporal chastisementharsh chastisementpublic chastisementsevere chastisementstern chastisementverbal chastisement

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Besides, the King hath wasted all his rods On late offenders, that he now doth lack The very instruments of chastisement; So that his power, like to a fangless lion, May offer, but not hold.

Source: wiktionary

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Source: wiktionary

All this he called “doing his duty by their parents;” and he never inflicted a chastisement without following it by the assurance, so consolatory to the smarting urchin, that “he would remember it and thank him for it the longest day he had to live.”

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Into the details of the infamy at which I thus connived (for even now I can scarce grant that I committed it) I have no design of entering[;] I mean but to point out the warnings and the successive steps with which my chastisement approached.

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