单词 | self-punishment |
释义 | > as lemmasself-punishment self-punishment n. Brit. , U.S. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxv. sig. Ee5v The selfe-punishment for others faults. 1663 J. Wright tr. E. Forcatel in tr. Martial Sales Epigrammatum 66 An envious mind is a self-punishment. 1889 Science 22 Mar. 216/2 The principal streets of the village are traversed, and the self-punishment is inflicted with special violence during pauses at the street-corners. 1948 Ethics 59 58/2 Wrap all idiosyncrasies and self-punishments..into a final splurge of spirituality. 2016 Toronto Star (Nexis) 2 Sept. e5 The telling of his family's story could be a drunken habit of self-punishment or a moment of self-obsessed nostalgia. < as lemmas |
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