How To Use Chastisement In A Sentence
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Most people come to parenthood with a determination to spare their children the deprivations and chastisements of their own youth.
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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.
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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
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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
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Most people come to parenthood with a determination to spare their children the deprivations and chastisements of their own youth.
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So the people putting together the maps and the statistics deserve support, not blame or chastisement.
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We were already so distressed that further chastisement must have seemed pointless.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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This approach seems to be based on the notion that chastisement and domestic violence are one and the same.
The Star (South Africa)
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The law is absolutely clear: the Bill treats smacking as lawful and reasonable chastisement.
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A man like me," Gandhi argued, "cannot but believe this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins" — in particular the sins of untouchability.
Tagore and His India
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At first there was no sovereignty, no king, no chastisement, and no chastiser.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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Jehovah turns the hearts of kings and peoples as the rivers of water, and He stirred up these hostile nations when His people were in need of chastisement; He could wield their power as the axe which assails a tree is wielded by the woodman; He could call the mightiest conqueror to serve His secret purposes, as a man calls a dog to his foot. [
The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891
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On this view, remorse is chastisement enough by itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?
A Brief History of Disbelief
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Old Jolyon was left with the doll, a furbelowed affair in wax — which is indeed more inviting to chastisement than china — whose round blue eyes expressed nothing but indifference.
On Forsyte 'Change
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But her mother expressed an ardent desire to hear my _vivâ voce_ corroboration of this statement, informing me that she was but a poor weak widow-woman, but that, if it should appear that I was merely the giddy trifler of her daughter's young, artless affections, it would be her dolesome duty to summon instantaneously every male able-bodied inmate of her establishment, and request them to inflict deserved corporal chastisement upon my person!
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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The latter paid absolutely no attention to him when he said "Get-ap," or when he applied the "gad"; she neither obeyed the command nor resented the chastisement.
Anderson Crow, Detective
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S: And (as for) those who disbelieve, for them is the fire of hell; it shall not be finished with them entirely so that they should die, nor shall the chastisement thereof be lightened to them: even thus do We retribute every ungrateful one.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
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Anita by describing the strong chastisements of Honuphrius and the depravities (turpissimas!) of Canicula, the deceased wife of Mauritius, with Sulla, the simoniac, who is abnegand and repents.
Finnegans Wake
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These are the people who show their love not with unconditional support but with chastisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has more animal spirit than the pointer, but he has not so much patient courage; and the chastisement, sometimes unnecessary and cruel, but leaving the pointer perfect in his work, and eager for it too, would make the setter disgusted with it, and leave him a mere 'blinker'.
The Dog
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Anita by describing the strong chastisements of Honuphrius and the depravities (turpissimas!) of Canicula, the deceased wife of Mauritius, with Sulla, the simoniac, who is abnegand and repents.
Finnegans Wake
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I fell victim to similar chastisements on the journey there, and I had merely bemoaned the lack of air conditioning.
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This would surely shame councillors into doing their duty by the poor more effectively than any prime ministerial chastisement.
Times, Sunday Times
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For, as he [a husband] is to answer for her [his wife's] misbehavior, the law thought it reasonable to intrust him with this power of restraining her, by domestic chastisement, in the same moderation that a man is allowed to correct his apprentices or children; for whom the master or parent is also liable in some cases to answer. 7
'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.
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Help those in her presence to keep a civil tongue and a calm demeanor as they take on the burden of chastisement and admonishment, which is never easy work, Lord.
Poor, Afflicted Nail Filing Sister
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He was persuaded to confess by 25 blows of the knout—a favourite Russian instrument of chastisement—on the first day, and 15 on the second.
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The civil law gave the husband the same, or a larger authority over his wife, allowing him, for some misdemeanors, _flagellis et Fustibus acriter verberare uxorem_ (to beat his wife severely with whips and cudgels); for others only _modicam castigationem adhibere_ (to administer moderate chastisement).
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
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The visitors were scandalized by the chastisements imposed by the French upon their children.
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Fame id the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Eventually the Supt is winkled out-fortunately he knows me and is practical minded-he agrees with my judgement and the whole thing goes to CPS who say-reasonable chastisement.
Upside Your Head « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Beware the chastisement of hubris.
Times, Sunday Times
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To his teachers' fury, chastisement did not cause contrition but hilarity.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the few occasions I was driven to use such chastisement, it felt like an abject admission of parental failure.
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One woman demonstrably took his side when it was obvious that our glances and verbalizations were chastisements.
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Previously they could use 'reasonable chastisement', with a judge making a final ruling.
Times, Sunday Times
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On this mysterious chastisement, which some think consisted in an attack of the madness called lycanthropy, as well as on the interregnum which it must have caused, Babylonian annals are silent: clever hypotheses have been devised either to explain this silence, or in scanning documents in order to find in them traces of the wanted interregnum
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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If -- The oldest manuscripts read, "With a view to chastening (that is, since God's chastisement is with a view to your chastening, that is, disciplinary amelioration) endure patiently"; so Vulgate.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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If we habitually looked at calamities as His loving chastisement, intended to draw us to Himself, we should not have to stand perplexed so often at what we call the mysteries of His providence.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
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Some jurisconsults, indeed, have wisely held that the contumacious person ought not to be condemned unless the crime were clearly established; but other lawyers have been of a contrary opinion: they have boldly affirmed that the flight of the accused was a proof of the crime; that the contempt which he showed for justice, by refusing to appear, merited the same chastisement as would have followed his conviction.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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By this means she insured the personal chastisement of all other youths who dared to lift their eyes to her, while she by no means bound herself to her spadassin of St. Valeri.
Hereward, the Last of the English
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But of late, his self-chastisement has lacked the venom of old.
Times, Sunday Times
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Paul cast out the spirit; and her owners brought him and Silas before the magistrates, the duumvirs, who inflicted summary chastisement, never imagining they were Romans.
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Since then not to be chastised is a mark of bastardy, we ought [not to refuse, but] rejoice in chastisement, as a mark of our genuine sonship" [Chrysostom].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Nor was it at all certain, in any one instance, where this exemplary chastisement overtook him, that the apparent unanimity of the actors went further than the _practical_ conclusion of "abating" the imperial nuisance, or that their indignation had settled upon the same offences.
The Caesars
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You cannot but know that we live in a period of chastisement and ruin.
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For as he that only punishes a sin and does nothing to point out its most extreme lawlessness, produces no such great effect by his chastisement: so again, he who only abashes and fails to terrify by his mode of punishing, does not very keenly hit men of hardened minds.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
