goading

English

Verb

goading

1. present participle and gerund of goad

Noun

goading (plural goadings)

1. The act by which somebody is goaded.
   • 1853, Orson Squire Fowler, Practical Phrenology:

     This fact refutes the doctrine that the goadings of a guilty conscience in this life, constitute the only punishment for sin […]