As chastisement for the Graveses' inexplicable good fortune, people shun them — their envy, as Dr. Johnson put it, "poisoning the banquet which they cannot taste".
While primitive people in the presocial or early communal stages might have been awed by such manifestations of natural power and ascribed them to the action of the gods, they would not necessarily have explained them as chastisement for human crimes before the concept of punishment became familiar under the regime of law.
Some of their notes read almost as chastisements of her imagination – such as one on a page from The Half-Blood Prince, where Harry notes that a potion his teacher has just shown him takes six months to make ("So Slughorn has some ready prepared for their first lesson, presumably!"), or the abandoned watery end for the Weasleys' flying car ("I wondered whether the mer-people scene actually works?").
"Lo siento," Bonita said for the hundredth time, shaking her head in self-chastisement.
He mixes charm and chastisement as easily as he switches from English to fluent Spanish, and breaks lessons into digestible parts, reviewing relentlessly.
A remarkable post-funerary custom has been observed in Islām; it is known as the Chastisement of the Tomb.
Instead, on Friday, Obama used Sochi in his statement as a chastisement: Russia moving into Ukraine militarily "just days after the world came to Russia for the Olympic Games," its failure "to respect the independence and sovereignty and borders of Ukraine, and of international laws," would "invite the condemnation of nations around the world," he said.
A6 Right to Hit Children Upheld The House of Lords -- the upper house of Parliament -- resolved to limit, but not forbid, the right of parents to hit their children, changing a 144-year-old law that gave parents the right to strike children as "reasonable chastisement" for misbehavior.
The House of Lords the upper house of Parliament -- resolved Monday to limit, but not forbid, the right of parents to punish their children by slapping or spanking them, changing a 144-year-old law that gave parents the right to hit children as "reasonable chastisement" for misbehavior.
In this view, diseases and other sufferings were sent as a chastisement, which people had to accept.
Hopley's defence, known as "reasonable chastisement", became a frequently used response to charges of corporal punishment and was incorporated into the Children and Young Persons Act 1933.
