self-chastisement
nounEtymology From self- + chastisement.
1
The act of chastising oneself.
- 1892, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Phase the Fourth, Chapter 28, […] in almost a terror of ecstasy Tess divined that, despite her many months of lonely self-chastisement, wrestlings, communings, schemes to lead a future of austere isolation, love's counsel would prevail.
- Wani rarely blushed, or showed embarrassment of any kind, beyond the murmured self-chastisement with which he offered a seat to a lady or confessed his ignorance of some trivial thing.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
- Related terms
- self-punishment, self-reproach