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It is difficult for me to justify to myself the violent jobation which my Father gave me in consequence of my scream, except by attributing to him something of the human weakness of vanity.— Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
[FOOTNOTE 33: jobation -- a tedious session; scolding]— The Kellys and the O'Kellys
He took my jobation in very good part, for I trust that as— Here, There and Everywhere
He listened to this jobation submissively, and then frankly acknowledged that he had spoken hardly.— Allan Quatermain
When he had gone I gave Umslopogaas a jobation and told him that I was ashamed of his behaviour.— Allan Quatermain

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