self-chastisement

English

Noun

self-chastisement (uncountable)

1. The act of chastising oneself.
   • 1892, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Phase the Fourth, Chapter 28,^[1]

     […] in almost a terror of ecstasy Tess divined that, despite her many months of lonely self-chastisement, wrestlings, communings, schemes to lead a future of austere isolation, love's counsel would prevail.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     Wani rarely blushed, or showed embarrassment of any kind, beyond the murmured self-chastisement with which he offered a seat to a lady or confessed his ignorance of some trivial thing.

See also

• self-punishment
• self-reproach