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Definition of Chastisements
1. chastisement [n] - See also: chastisement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chastisements
Literary usage of Chastisements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The National Preacher by Austin Dickinson (1849)
"ABUSE OF chastisements. BY THE EDITOR. If afflictions do not subdue and reclaim,
there is nothing like them to confirm men in their evil ways, ..."
2. Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Three Departments of the Intellect by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1869)
"Of the chastisements of God inflicted on those he loves. There is one consideration
more.—May we not draw light upon this subject from an observation of the ..."
3. The Life of David as Reflected in His Psalms by Alexander Maclaren (1885)
"chastisements. THE chastisements, which were the natural fruits of David's sin,
soon began to show themselves, though apparently ten years at least passed ..."
4. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"But far from these th' artificer divine Had wrought a Tartarus, the dreadful
doors Of Pluto, and the chastisements of sin; Swung o'er a threatening ..."
5. Life and Death of Mr. Badman and The Holy War by John Bunyan (1905)
"... yea, and to impose them with whips and chastisements, if they shall not
willingly hearken to do thy Commandments. And, Mr. Recorder, because thou art ..."
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