Definition of "beratement" []

• The act of berating. (noun)

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• "He continued his beratement, his scoffing, his scolding and his hissing."
• "Instead, I created my own course of study, despite her daily worry and verbal beratement about how I was going to lose a year of school."
• "At the risk of an onslaught of beratement, and with no insult meant to families and friends of those murdered on that sad september day, Im really getting sick of Bush waving 9/11 in our faces."