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Self-punishment   /sɛlf-pˈənɪʃmənt/   Listen
Self-punishment

noun
1.
Punishment inflicted on yourself.





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"Self-punishment" Quotes from Famous Books



... self-punishment of the young gold hunters the three gathered fuel for the night and balsam boughs for their beds. It was dark by the time they sat down to their supper, which they ate in the light of a huge ...
— The Gold Hunters - A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds • James Oliver Curwood
... Strange, I may well call it; for don't you see, my dear, that we seem all to be impelled, as it were, by a perverse fate, which none of us are able to resist?—and yet all arising (with a strong appearance of self-punishment) from ourselves? Do not my parents see the hopeful children, from whom they expected a perpetuity of worldly happiness to their branching family, now grown up to answer the till now distant hope, setting ...
— Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... time that Rebecca, who had been reading about the Spartan boy, conceived the idea of some mild form of self-punishment to be applied on occasions when she was fully convinced in her own mind that it would be salutary. The immediate cause of the decision was a somewhat sadder accident than was common, even in a ...
— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin


Words linked to "Self-punishment" :   punishment, penalization, penalisation, penalty, self-flagellation


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