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Definition of Castigating
1. castigate [v] - See also: castigate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Castigating
Literary usage of Castigating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it by Hinton Rowan Helper (1860)
"... most severely castigating by name those who presumed to ... or retain them in
slavery; also most severely castigating those who should presume or dare ..."
2. The Yoga-system of Patañjali: Or, The Ancient Hindu Doctrine of by Patañjali, Vyāsa, Vācaspatimiśra (1914)
"And since the action of castigating does not remain within the agent, as is the
case in ... Therefore we come to the result that the act of castigating, ..."
3. Biographia Dramatica: Or, A Companion to the Playhouse: Containing by David Erskine Baker, Isaac Reed, Stephen Jones (1812)
"At twelve years of age he was sent to Eton school, and soon after went into the
Long Chamber, where he frequently the castigating rod of felt the ..."
4. The Contemporary Drama of Italy by Lander MacClintock (1920)
"... of the dialect writer, Bersezio; would, in a word, bring comedy back to its
true function, castigating, perhaps, but castigating by amusing. ..."
5. Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South by Hinton Rowan Helper (1860)
"... most severely castigating by name those who presumed to subject ... or retain
them in slavery ; also most severely castigating those who should presume ..."
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