Castigation (from the Latin ) or chastisement (via the French ) is the infliction of severe (moral or corporal) punishment. One who administers a castigation is a castigator or chastiser.
According to an etymology recorded by Thomas Aquinas,
castigation specifically meant restoring one to a religiously pure state, called chastity. In ancient Rome,
could refer to actions by the magistrate called a censor (in the... plus
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