Castigatory

  • 31punitive — Synonyms and related words: avenging, castigating, castigatory, chastening, chastising, compensatory, correctional, corrective, disciplinary, grudgeful, grueling, implacable, inflictive, irreconcilable, penal, penological, punishing, punitory,… …

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  • 32retributive — Synonyms and related words: castigatory, chastening, chastising, compensating, compensative, compensatory, corrective, disciplinary, grueling, indemnificatory, inflictive, lucrative, moneymaking, paying, penal, penological, profitable, punishing …

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  • 33vituperative — Synonyms and related words: Rabelaisian, abusive, acid, belittling, biting, blackening, blameful, blasphemous, calumniatory, calumnious, castigatory, censorious, comminatory, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, critical, cursing, damnatory …

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  • 34punishment — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Applying a penalty for an offense Nouns 1. punishment; chastisement, chastening; correction, castigation; discipline, infliction, trial; judgment, penalty; retribution; thunderbolt, nemesis; requital,… …

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  • 35Punishment — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Punishment >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 punishment punishment punition Sgm: N 1 chastisement chastisement chastening Sgm: N 1 correction correction castigation GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 discipline discipline …

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  • 36cucking stool — early 13c., from cuck to void excrement, from O.N. kuka feces (the chair was sometimes in the form of a close stool). Also known as trebucket and castigatory, it was used on disorderly women and fraudulent tradesmen, either in the form of public… …

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  • 37castigate — [ kastɪgeɪt] verb reprimand severely. Derivatives castigation noun castigator noun castigatory adjective Origin C17 (earlier (ME) as castigation): from L. castigare reprove , from castus pure, chaste …

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  • 38cucking-stool — n. Castigatory, trebuchet, tumbrel, ducking stool …

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  • 39ducking-stool — n. Trebuchet, tumbrel, castigatory, cucking stool …

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  • 40trebuchet — n. Tumbrel, castigatory, ducking stool, cucking stool, trebucket …

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