(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discipline.

abuse admonishment admonition amercement avengement banishment battering beating caning cashiering castigating castigation chastening chastisement chastising comeuppance compensation correction criticism damage desert deserts discipline disciplining dressing-down electrocution excommunication execution exile fine flogging hanging harm imprisonment incarceration injury just deserts lashing maltreatment mauling mulct paddling penal retribution penalization penalty penance price punition quittance rebuke recompense reprisal reproof requital retribution revenge reward rod scolding scourging sentence sentencing spanking thrashing torture trouncing what for what is due what is merited whipping