Thesaurus / self-castigation
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synonyms for self-castigation
- anguish
- attrition
- compunction
- contriteness
- contrition
- debasement
- degradation
- distress
- grief
- humbling
- humiliation
- penance
- qualm
- regret
- remorse
- remorsefulness
- repentance
- rue
- ruefulness
- ruth
- sadness
- scruple
- self-condemnation
- self-flagellation
- self-punishment
- self-reproach
- anguish
- attrition
- compunction
- contriteness
- contrition
- debasement
- degradation
- distress
- grief
- humbling
- humiliation
- penance
- penitency
- qualm
- regret
- remorse
- repentance
- rue
- ruefulness
- ruth
- sadness
- scruple
- self-condemnation
- self-flagellation
- self-punishment
- self-reproach
antonyms for self-castigation
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How to use self-castigation in a sentence
Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
PEARLS OF THOUGHTMATURIN M. BALLOUNow this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYAt present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERBut to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?
THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER (1801)DANIEL DEFOEJean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEThese evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYAs guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEI must aspire to the agitating transports of self-devotion, in scenes of sacrifice and peril!
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTEROnly at moments was he aware of this—a kind of higher Self, detached from shifting moods, looked on calmly and took note.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODAlone the supreme Self in him looked calmly on, seeming to lessen the part that trembled and knew fear.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODWORDS RELATED TO SELF-CASTIGATION
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