Meaning of beration | Babel Free

Definitions

Beratement: the act of berating.

nonstandard, rare, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“now before the mass beration for slating a religion could I just say⟳, 'who the f...'s Jesus?'”

“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.”

“See⟳..my constant beration has paid off!”

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