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  • noun The act of berating.

Etymologies

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From berate +‎ -ment.

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Examples

  • He continued his beratement, his scoffing, his scolding and his hissing.

    Simon Burns gets too hot to handle 2010

  • Instead, I created my own course of study, despite her daily worry and verbal beratement about how I was going to lose a year of school.

    BRASIL AS A GIRL Maggie Jochild 2007

  • At the risk of an onslaught of beratement, and with no insult meant to families and friends of those murdered on that sad september day, Im really getting sick of Bush waving 9/11 in our faces.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2006

  • Because of idealism's ambivalent and unrecognized dependence on the feminized other, its improperly grieved loss leads to the sorts of outrages that Freud associates with unsuccessful mourning: notably, manic self-beratement and self-laceration, and the hallucinatory identification with the lost object so that the subject assumes the shadowy form of the beloved.

    Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000

  • I didn't receive a letter like John did, and I didn't receive much in the way of verbal beratement, which made me feel like the call was actually a good one.

    CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2002 2002

  • Some people are more susceptible to -- to everyone else's beratement.

    CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Two Confirmed Dead in California School Shootings, Cheney Admitted to Hospital After Chest Discomfort - March 5, 2001 2001

  • During Nog's beratement, Jake had watched the screen showing Ops and realized that the situation there was growing worse, not better.

    The Long Night Dean Wesley Smith 2000

  • During Nog's beratement, Jake had watched the screen showing Ops and realized that the situation there was growing worse, not better.

    The Long Night Dean Wesley Smith 2000

  • His non interest in purchasing this item and yet consistent beratement of it raises wonders of what other items he decides to impart his impartial and vast knowledge on.

    Coolsmartphone News 2010

  • His non interest in purchasing this item and yet consistent beratement of it raises wonders of what other items he decides to impart his impartial and vast knowledge on.

    Coolsmartphone News 2010

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