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self-punishment
noun as in hair shirt
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noun as in penitence
noun as in penitency
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These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.
Hence the development of the fearful self-punishment, which could have no meaning if the victim had felt innocent.
To this self-punishment, indeed, was attributed the disease of the lungs which ultimately caused his death.
Oh, to make up by bitter self-punishment my ingratitude to her who has been leading me unseen, for years, home to her bosom!
And that would be a bitter self-punishment, for I love so to live if I can have my own life.
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On this page you'll find 92 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to self-punishment, such as: self-flagellation, and self-hatred.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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