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self-punishment

noun as in hair shirt

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Example Sentences

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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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