Definition of Chastising

1. Verb. (present participle of chastise) ¹

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Definition of Chastising

1. chastise [v] - See also: chastise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chastising

chasteningly
chastens
chaster
chastest
chasting
chastise
chastised
chastiser
chastisers
chastises
chastisest
chastiseth
chastising
chastities
chastity belts
chastity cage
chastity cages
chastize
chastized
chastizes
chastizing
chasts
chastushka
chastushkas

Literary usage of Chastising

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

1. Shahmah in Pursuit of Freedom; Or, The Branded Hand by Frances Harriet Green (1858)
"... withheld from chastising Mr. Slicer—All American Women in Danger—All who do not protest against it, involved in the Guilt—The Prison—An unexpected ..."

2. The History of Ancient Europe: With a View of the Revolutions in Asia and by William Russell (1801)
"The great king, therefore, persevered in his resolution of chastising the European Greeks, unless they would acknowledge his sway; and ordered ships to be ..."

3. The Barrister: Being Anecdotes of the Late Tom Nolan of the New York Bar by Charles Frederick Stansbury (1902)
"Chastising the Flesh. RICHARD NEVILLE, the witty author of the " Myles O'Hara" papers, tells the following story of Barrister Nolan ..."

4. Works by Jean Calvin, Calvin translation society (1848)
"Now the Church in chastising offenders with severity, spares them not in this world, in order that God may spare them.1 Should any one wish to have anything ..."

5. The history of the French revolution, tr. with notes by F. Shoberl by Thomas Carlyle, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers (1838)
"... so much trouble to the national guards of the kingdom. conceive hopes of chastising the French revolutionists, as he had chastised those of Holland. ..."

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