Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which chastens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who chastens.
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- noun One who
chastens .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And wholehail, snaeffell, dreardrizzle or sleetshowers of blessing, where it froze in chalix eller swum in the vestry, with fairskin book and ruling rod, vein of my vergin page, her chastener ever
Finnegans Wake 2006
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It is conceived that the only way to find a shelter against the aberrations of sentiment is by completely foregoing its indulgence, and mockery, which is often a useful chastener of mysticism, slanders in the same breath the noblest aspirations.
>Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter V. 1909
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Her lamp was brimming with oil against the judgment day, and she was as one divinely appointed to be the chastener of the unrighteous.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Her lamp was brimming with oil against the judgment day, and she was as one divinely appointed to be the chastener of the unrighteous.
A Modern Chronicle — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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Her lamp was brimming with oil against the judgment day, and she was as one divinely appointed to be the chastener of the unrighteous.
A Modern Chronicle — Volume 07 Winston Churchill 1909
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She is the solace of the forlorn, the chastener of the prosperous, and the guide of the wayward.
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For by the very nature of the spoken or written word, by the word's strictly intellectual concomitants, poetry, even while rousing emotion, brings into play what is most different to emotion, emotion's sifter and chastener, the great force which reduces all things to abstraction, to the eternal and typical: reason.
Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Vernon Lee 1895
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Anglo-Saxon will most promptly direct his steps, and the only one I have space to mention, is the so-called Maison de Tristan l'Hermite -- a gentleman whom the readers of "Quentin Durward" will not have forgotten -- the hangman-in-ordinary to that great and prompt chastener
A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879
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This "jambok" is a severe chastener to an obstinate ox.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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This "jambok" is a severe chastener to an obstinate ox.
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850
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