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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
chasten .
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Examples
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Amish parents turn to the words of King Solomon to support corporal discipline: "He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes" Proverbs 13: 24.
Donald Kraybill: The Patient and Disciplined Faith of the Amish Donald Kraybill 2010
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Amish parents turn to the words of King Solomon to support corporal discipline: "He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes" Proverbs 13: 24.
Donald Kraybill: The Patient and Disciplined Faith of the Amish Donald Kraybill 2010
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Amish parents turn to the words of King Solomon to support corporal discipline: "He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes" Proverbs 13: 24.
Donald Kraybill: The Patient and Disciplined Faith of the Amish Donald Kraybill 2010
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Amish parents turn to the words of King Solomon to support corporal discipline: "He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes" Proverbs 13: 24.
Donald Kraybill: The Patient and Disciplined Faith of the Amish Donald Kraybill 2010
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However, since our princes then felt somewhat elated, God, who chasteneth every son whom he loveth, so chastened us that hardly seven hundred horses could be found in our army; and thus, not because we lacked proven and valiant men, but from lack of horses, or food, or through excessive cold, almost all were dying.
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She believed she had won the attention of heaven when she saved the life of Monsieur Clapart, who, thanks to her devotion, lived on to torture her; but she chose to see, in the tyranny of that imbecile mind, a trial inflicted by the hand of one who loveth while he chasteneth.
A Start in Life 2007
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He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
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He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
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Ye might drop by, maybe, and have a word wi" Rab McAfee and Isaiah Lachlan-perhaps a short sermon on the text, "He who loveth his son chasteneth him betimes?
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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Chaste is from the Latin castus, “pure,” and chasten means “to make pure” by some mode of discipline, with the positive connotation of being strengthened by moral correction “whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth”.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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