self-punishment

English

Noun

self-punishment (uncountable)

1. The act of punishing oneself.
   • 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia‎^[1], Cambridge University Press, published 1912, Book 2, Chapter 25, p. 308:

     […] O Jealousie (said she) the phrensie of wise folkes, the well-wishing spite, the unkinde carefulnesse, the selfe-punishment for others faults, and selfe-miserie in others happinesse, the cousin of envie, daughter of love, & mother of hate, how couldest thou so quietly get thee a seate in the unquiet hart of Gynecia, […]

   • 1853, Charles Kingsley, chapter 24, in Hypatia‎^[2]:

     How could he appease the wrath of Him who died on the cross, save by years of bitter supplication and self-punishment?

See also

• self-chastisement