penancing

Verb

penance (third-person singular simple present penances, present participle penancing, simple past and past participle penanced)

1. To impose penance; to punish.
   • She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, / Some demon mistress, or the demon's self.1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 6

   Synonyms:

   castigate, penalize, amerce, chasten, chastise, come down on, correct, fix someone's wagon, have someone's guts for garters, have someone's head

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