self-castigation
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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
He took a fiercely angry pleasure in self-castigation for having wished to be happy.
From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Gilbert Cannan
In its streets are "penitents," wandering, in sackcloth and sandals, with a downcast look and a rope for self-castigation, among soldiers in new French uniforms and ladies in the latest Paris fashions.
From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Robert A. Wilson
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 Nikolai Velimirović
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