Usually means: Severe criticism or punishment administered.
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  1. castigation: Merriam-Webster
  2. castigation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. castigation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. castigation: Vocabulary.com
  5. castigation: Wordnik
  6. castigation: Wiktionary
  7. Castigation, castigation: Dictionary.com
  8. Castigation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Castigation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. castigation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. castigation: Rhymezone
  12. Castigation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. castigation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. castigation: FreeDictionary.org
  15. castigation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. castigation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. castigation: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (castigation)

▸ noun:  (archaic) Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof
▸ noun:  severe criticism.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Emendation; correction.

Similar:
chastisement, upbraiding, dressing down, going-over, earful, bawling out, chewing out, correption, monishment, punition, more...

Opposite:
praise, commendation, approval

Types:
scolding, reprimand, berating, chastisement, tongue-lashing, dressing-down, more...

Adjectives:
severe, self, such, public, verbal, personal, much, terrible, moral, wholesome, merited



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Similar:
chastisement, upbraiding, dressing down, going-over, earful, bawling out, chewing out, correption, monishment, punition, more...

Opposite:
praise, commendation, approval

Types:
scolding, reprimand, berating, chastisement, tongue-lashing, dressing-down, more...

Adjectives:
severe, self, such, public, verbal, personal, much, terrible, moral, wholesome, merited



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