Definition of Chastisers

1. Noun. (plural of chastiser) ¹

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Definition of Chastisers

1. chastiser [n] - See also: chastiser

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chastisers

chastenesses
chastenest
chasteneth
chastening
chasteningly
chastens
chaster
chastest
chasting
chastise
chastised
chastiser
chastisers
chastises
chastisest
chastiseth
chastising
chastities
chastity belts
chastity cage
chastity cages
chastize
chastized
chastizes

Literary usage of Chastisers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the by Tryon Edwards (1908)
"The passions are at once tempters and chastisers. As tempters, they come with garlands of flowers on brows of youth ; as chastisers. ..."

2. Lectures and Essays by Henry Giles (1851)
"As tempters, they come with garlands of flowers, on brows of youth ; as chastisers, they appear with wreaths of snakes on the forehead of deformity. ..."

3. Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-extermination in by Simón Bolívar (1828)
"... of their country's fate, the assertors of its rights, and the bold intrepid chastisers of the oppressors who had so long and so cruelly usurped it. ..."

4. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"... and, though aided by native allies, we emerged from the contest assertore simply of that ascendancy; chastisers, certainly, of a military revolt. but of ..."

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