jobation

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  • noun A scolding; a long tedious reproof.

Examples

  • When he had gone I gave Umslopogaas a jobation and told him that I was ashamed of his behaviour.

    Allan Quatermain

  • It is difficult for me to justify to myself the violent jobation which my Father gave me in consequence of my scream, except by attributing to him something of the human weakness of vanity.

    Father and Son: a study of two temperaments

  • Julian would gladly have fought it out with his imperative father; but, nevertheless, it was a comfort to have to fetch pale Charles for a jobation; so he went at once.

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper

  • After all, there's no place for a cock to fight on like his own dunghill; and there's nothing able to carry a fellow well through a tough bit of jobation with a lawyer like a stiff tumbler of brandy punch.

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys

  • Mr Green was presented, and ushered into the service much in the same way as I was; but he had not forgotten what I said to him relative to the first lieutenant; and it so happened that, on the third day he witnessed a jobation, delivered by the first lieutenant to one of the midshipmen, who, venturing to reply, was ordered to the mast-head for the remainder of the day; added to which, a few minutes afterwards, the first lieutenant ordered two men to be put both legs in irons.

    Percival Keene

  • "I can understand, father," answered Ida, struggling to keep her temper under this jobation, "that my refusal to marry Mr. Cossey is disagreeable to you for obvious reasons, though it is not so very long since you detested him yourself."

    Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life

Note

The word 'jobation' comes from the name "Job".