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
You will realise that he, like a true artist again, feels the need and the use of self-castigation.
From On the Eve by Garnett, Constance
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
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
