Chastisement is the infliction of corporal punishment as defined by law. Otherwise he would chastise us with a severe chastisement until we did submit. If we do not, a chastisement will befall us. She was a "governess", i.e. she specialised in chastisement, whipping, flagellation, and the like. No words of chastisement passed his lips; no rule and ferule maintained his discipline. Rabbinic Judaism saw the destruction as a chastisement for neglecting the Torah. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed. Jackson was expressing his disappointment in Obama's Father's Day speech chastisement of black fathers. Jackson was expressing his disappointment in Obama's Father's Day speech chastisement of Black fathers. Lord Rainbow accepts his chastisement gracefully, and gives each woman a jewel. It is not, as Samuel Johnson erroneously entered in his dictionary, a "chastisement by blows". It was his experience there that spawned his poem "E-Pluribus Unum", from 1973's "Chastisement". Another is the poem, "Black Soldier", by the Last Poets, on their 1972 album, "Chastisement". She is currently recording her third album "Chastisement" in London, England.