different between chastizement vs chastisement

English

Noun

chastizement (countable and uncountable, plural chastizements)

1. Alternative form of chastisement

English

Alternative forms

• chastizement

Etymology

Old French chastiement, from the verb chastier, from Latin cast?g?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?æst?zm?nt/, /?t?æst?zm?nt/, /t?æ?sta?zm?nt/

Noun

chastisement (countable and uncountable, plural chastisements)

1. The act of chastising; rebuke; punishment.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 1,^[1]

     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.

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Isaiah 53:5,^[2]

     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.

   • 1820, Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,”^[3]

     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.”

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case,^[4]

     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.

   • 1929, Winston Churchill, Hansard, 24 December, 1929,^[5]

     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.

Derived terms

• self-chastisement

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