CHASTISEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chastisement mean? 

• CHASTISEMENT (noun)
  The noun CHASTISEMENT has 2 senses:

1. verbal punishment

2. a rebuke for making a mistake

  Familiarity information: CHASTISEMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHASTISEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Verbal punishment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

castigation; chastisement

Hypernyms ("chastisement" is a kind of...):

penalisation; penalization; penalty; punishment (the act of punishing)

Derivation:

chastise (censure severely)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A rebuke for making a mistake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

chastening; chastisement; correction

Hypernyms ("chastisement" is a kind of...):

rebuke; reprehension; reprimand; reproof; reproval (an act or expression of criticism and censure)

Derivation:

chastise (censure severely)

 Context examples 

But Collie did not give over, as was her wont, after a decent interval of chastisement.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I did not need to be guided to the well-known room, to which I had so often been summoned for chastisement or reprimand in former days.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

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.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Miss Ingram ought to be clement, for she has it in her power to inflict a chastisement beyond mortal endurance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Eliza and Georgiana, evidently acting according to orders, spoke to me as little as possible: John thrust his tongue in his cheek whenever he saw me, and once attempted chastisement; but as I instantly turned against him, roused by the same sentiment of deep ire and desperate revolt which had stirred my corruption before, he thought it better to desist, and ran from me tittering execrations, and vowing I had burst his nose.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)