How To Use chastisement In A Sentence
- Most people come to parenthood with a determination to spare their children the deprivations and chastisements of their own youth.
- However, sadly, there are too many people for whom physical chastisement or emotional abuse is the normal pattern of behaviour, irrespective of whether they are natural born parents or a de facto partner of a parent.
- Or, rather, he had invented for himself a language which used the sinews of the languages to which he had been exposed-and once I thought that his was, not the Adamic language that a happy mankind had spoken, all united by a single tongue from the origin of the world to the Tower of Babel, or one of the languages that arose after the dire event of their division, but precisely the Babelish language of the first day after the divine chastisement, the language of primeval confusion. The Name of the Rose
- AA LB Brandon Spikes was concerned in an eye gouging incident which led HC Herban Meyer to announce which this was a teaching moment for his team, as good as he followed which up with a unbending chastisement for Spikes of a cessation from a Vandy diversion for a 1st half. Archive 2009-11-01
- Most people come to parenthood with a determination to spare their children the deprivations and chastisements of their own youth.
- So the people putting together the maps and the statistics deserve support, not blame or chastisement.
- We were already so distressed that further chastisement must have seemed pointless. Times, Sunday Times
- Morrice, ashamed of his exploit, and frightened by the looks of Mr Monckton, made an apology with the utmost humility, and hurried away: and Mr Monckton, hopeless of any better fortune, soon did the same, gnawn with a cruel discontent which he did not dare avow, and longing. to revenge himself upon Morrice, even by personal chastisement. Cecilia
- This approach seems to be based on the notion that chastisement and domestic violence are one and the same. The Star (South Africa)
- The law is absolutely clear: the Bill treats smacking as lawful and reasonable chastisement.