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View synonyms for self-punishment
self-punishment
noun
- the act or an instance of punishing oneself
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These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.
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Hence the development of the fearful self-punishment, which could have no meaning if the victim had felt innocent.
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To this self-punishment, indeed, was attributed the disease of the lungs which ultimately caused his death.
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Oh, to make up by bitter self-punishment my ingratitude to her who has been leading me unseen, for years, home to her bosom!
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And that would be a bitter self-punishment, for I love so to live if I can have my own life.
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