Beration vs Berating - What's the difference?
beration | berating |
Beratement]]: the act of [[berate, berating.
* 1983 , Lynsey Stevens, Forbidden Wine , Harlequin Books, ISBN 9780373106547, page 8:
* 1992 February 12, Lisa J. Gilmore, "
* 1999 , Farid Esack, On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in the World Today , Oneworld, ISBN 9781851681464, page 53:
* 2000 November 14, "Al" (username), "
* 2009 , Jacques Khalip, Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession ,
* 2009 January 31, "ldnayman" (username), "
As nouns the difference between beration and berating
is that beration is beratement]]: the act of [[berate|berating while berating is a scolding.As a verb berating is
.beration
English
Noun
(-)- However, this self-beration had little effect on her eyes as, with a will of their own, they touched on the curve of his lips.
Re: Oh, you sweet thing", in bit.listserv.words-l, Usenet :
- Seems that there are two Lisa's out there... Lisa 1, Please acknowledge. This is Lisa G. We'll have to keep ourselves straight. I'm not involved in the beration or phone sex thing.
- There are a few things that I have always found helpful when I am reflecting upon where I am, without it degenerating into a futile exercise in narcissistic navel-gazing or self-beration .
Re: first concert [ot] but who cares", in alt.music.savage-garden, Usenet :
- now before the mass beration for slating a religion could I just say, 'who the f...'s Jesus?'
][http://www.amazon.com/Life-Romanticism-Dispossession-Cultural-Present/dp/0804758409Stanford University Press, ISBN 9780804758406, page 163:
- Writing in a post-Waterloo culture that repudiated the trappings of usurping authority and revolutionary time, Austen depicts Sir Walter as the perfect example of a subject born out of ressentiment , affectively retreading the ground of the past with an impotent self-beration that props up his calcified sense of prestige.
Re: serial killers pinball", in rec.games.pinball, Usenet :
- See..my constant beration has paid off!