chastisement
/ˈt͡ʃæstəzmənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.20 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Besides, the King hath wasted all his rods On late offenders, that he now doth lack The very instruments of chastisement; So that his power, like to a fangless lion, May offer, but not hold."
- "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
- "All this he called “doing his duty by their parents;” and he never inflicted a chastisement without following it by the assurance, so consolatory to the smarting urchin, that “he would remember it and thank him for it the longest day he had to live.”"
- "Into the details of the infamy at which I thus connived (for even now I can scarce grant that I committed it) I have no design of entering[;] I mean but to point out the warnings and the successive steps with which my chastisement approached."
- "It seems to me that as he does not respond to this extremely conciliatory treatment it may be well to try whether a change of treatment might not produce a more satisfactory result. If praise and courtesy only result in narrow, bitter partisanship, perhaps a little well-merited chastisement may procure some geniality."
- "Abolition of defence of reasonable chastisement"
Etymology
Old French chastiement, from the verb chastier, from Latin castīgō
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₂eǵ-