beration

noun

1. (nonstandard, rare, uncountable)Beratement: the act of berating.

   “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.”