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Instruction vs Chastisement - What's the difference?

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Instruction is a related term of chastisement.


As nouns the difference between instruction and chastisement

is that instruction is (lb) the act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge while chastisement is the act of chastising.

instruction

Noun

  • (lb) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
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  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
  • (lb) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:If my instructions may be your guide.
  • (lb) An order or command.
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
  • (lb) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    chastisement

    English

    Alternative forms

    * chastizement

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of chastising.
  • A rebuke.
  • A punishment.