For my own part, I find it best to assume that a good sound scolding or
castigation has some latent and strengthening influence on my Grandson's Configuration; though I own that I have no grounds for thinking so.
He added, that as this was in some measure to confound virtue and vice, it might be worth Mr Thwackum's consideration, whether a larger
castigation might not be laid on upon the account.
Observing that my request for a ride took no attention, and finding myself falling slowly astern, I placed one foot upon the inner circumference of a hind wheel and was slowly elevated to the level of the hub, whence I boarded the concern, sans ceremonie, and scrambling forward seated myself beside the driver--who took no notice of me until he had administered another indiscriminate
castigation to his cattle, accompanied with the advice to "buckle down, you derned Incapable
By this time the cuadrillero had succeeded in lighting the lamp, and came in to see the man that he thought had been killed; and as Sancho caught sight of him at the door, seeing him coming in his shirt, with a cloth on his head, and a lamp in his hand, and a very forbidding countenance, he said to his master, "Senor, can it be that this is the enchanted Moor coming back to give us more
castigation if there be anything still left in the ink-bottle?
I suppose," observes Volumnia, having taken a little time to recover her spirits after her late
castigation, "I suppose Mr.
What he was about to say, what terrible
castigation he was going to give me, I never knew; for at that moment a man, passing along the sidewalk, stopped and glanced in at us.
Feeling bound, after what had passed in my presence that afternoon, to assert the innocence of my admirable friend, whenever I found it called in question--I own to having also felt bound to include in the accomplishment of this righteous purpose, a stinging
castigation in the case of Mr.
I thought I observed a tendency in the Man of Wrath rather to gloat over these
castigations.
By VERONICA ONJOROIt was right for the Ol-Kalou residents to put a local MCA to task over his public
castigation of women in the area on the International Women's Day over alleged low birth rates.
Uhuru's party issued these remarks in response to former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga's
castigation of its Secretary General Raphael Tuju, who wrote the Judiciary a protest letter.
The comment drew
castigation from the BJP, which characterised his jibe as an "insult to the poor".
This is indeed disturbing since it accounts for only the reported cases of child abuse in Pakistan, with others being unreported and hastily shoved under the covers for fear of social
castigation, judgement, victim blaming and shaming.
castigation - a severe scolding 
castigation - verbal punishment