beration en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /bəˈɹeɪʃən/
Etymology
From berate + -ion, as if it were a Latinate verb.
Meanings
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(nonstandard, rare, uncountable) Beratement: the act of berating.
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.
1999, Farid Esack, On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in the World Today, Oneworld, →ISBN, page 53:now before the mass beration for slating a religion could I just say, 'who the f...'s Jesus?'
2000 November 14, Al, “Re: first concert [ot] but who cares”, in alt.music.savage-garden (Usenet):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.
1992 February 12, Lisa J. Gilmore, “Re: Oh, you sweet thing”, in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet):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.
2009, Jacques Khalip, Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 163: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.
1983, Lynsey Stevens, Forbidden Wine, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 8:See..my constant beration has paid off!
2009 January 31, ldnayman, “Re: serial killers pinball”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet):