self-chastisement

短语

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act of chastising oneself.

    不可数

    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.

词源

From self- + chastisement.

来源:wiktionary