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Castigation vs Remonstrance - What's the difference?

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Castigation is a related term of remonstrance.


As nouns the difference between castigation and remonstrance

is that castigation is corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism while remonstrance is a remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, protest or objection.

castigation

Noun

  • Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.
  • (obsolete) Emendation; correction.
  • Anagrams

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    remonstrance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, protest or objection.
  • *
  • Fred's voice had taken a tone of grumbling remonstrance .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
  • * 2004 , (Perry Link), " China: A new postmortem on Tiananmen," , 15 March:
  • In the past, emperors based their right to rule mostly on heredity and so could listen to remonstrance from below without necessarily feeling that legitimacy was at stake.