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Jobation (n.)
"a long, tedious scolding," 1680s, a jocular formation from
Job
, the patriarch, with a Latinate noun ending, "in allusion to the rebukes he received from his 'comforters'" [Century Dictionary]. A verb
jobe
is attested from 1660s.
