beration

Etymology
, as if it were a Latinate verb.

Noun

 * 1)  Beratement: the act of berating.
 * 2) * 2009, Jacques Khalip, Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession, Stanford University Press, ISBN 9780804758406, page 163:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2009, Jacques Khalip, Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession, Stanford University Press, ISBN 9780804758406, page 163:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2009, Jacques Khalip, Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession, Stanford University Press, ISBN 9780804758406, page 163:
 * 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.