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
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
Too much knowledge had held him back, too many holy verses, too many sacrificial rules, to much self-castigation, so much doing and striving for that goal!
From Siddhartha by Hesse, Hermann
It would be quite enough to bring the dawning of a new day for Christianity if this self-castigation of the Churches were only a self-criticism.
From The Agony of the Church (1917) by Velimirović, Nikolai
