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What does castigation mean?

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Noun
  1. Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.
  2. (obsolete) Emendation; correction.
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The most common embarrassing mistake that gets posted to this forum involves dashing off a cocksurely scathing castigation.
The masochist prostrates himself to the lowest of the low, submits to castigation and flagellation, and his whole sexual organism is aroused to an abnormal pitch of pleasure.
Or would he fail to fathom her identity and so lay himself open to her castigation?
I couldn't say that R. wanted to give me a castigation when I didn't know what it meant.
With the exception of a small number who claimed that the attack was a put-up job, they were virtually unanimous in their castigation.
Strange to say, however, the trend towards nostalgia has met with castigation in the press.

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