self-castigation
Example Sentences
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His pouty Elvis face folded into a frown of self-castigation.
From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2018
Reflecting on this controversy need not lead only to self-castigation.
From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2016
For a time he would be the grim Protestant Flagellant, pursuing the idea of self-castigation.
From The Ragged Edge by MacGrath, Harold
The primitive monks, who practised self-castigation because of the world-evil, experienced a wonderful purification of soul, a new vision of God, and an extraordinary sense of unity with all men, living and dead.
From The Agony of the Church (1917) by Velimirović, Nikolai
Even in his seventh year he began to practice austerities and self-castigation, which he kept up through his life.
From The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches by Jordan, David Starr
