Definition of Chastening

1. Noun. A rebuke for making a mistake.

Exact synonyms: Chastisement, Correction
Generic synonyms: Rebuke, Reprehension, Reprimand, Reproof, Reproval
Derivative terms: Chastise

Definition of Chastening

1. Verb. (present participle of chasten) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chastening

1. chasten [v] - See also: chasten

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chastening

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chaste tree
chasted
chastely
chasten
chasten'd
chastened
chastener
chasteners
chasteness
chastenesses
chastenest
chasteneth
chastening (current term)
chasteningly
chastens
chaster
chastest
chasting
chastise
chastised
chastiser
chastisers
chastises
chastisest

Literary usage of Chastening

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

1. The Burial of the Dead: A Pastor's Complete Hand-book for Funeral Services by George Duffield, Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1883)
""If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what son is he ... "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous, ..."

2. Hebrews by James Barmby (1886)
"Three words are used to express it—" rebuke," " chastening," " scourging. ... "My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord," etc. 1. ..."

3. Funeral Sermons and Outline Addresses: An Aid for Pastors by William Ezra Ketcham (1899)
"All God's children are partakers of this chastening. Suffering does not come from God. He over- rules it, directs it. Suffering is destructive : then it is ..."

4. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1876)
"chastening. 0 Thou whose sacred feet have trod The thorny puth of woe, ... My spirit to its chastening stroke I meekly would resign, Xor murmur at the ..."

5. Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epistle to the Hebrews by Albert Barnes (1857)
"7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons ... If ye endure chastening. That is, if you undergo^ or are called to experience correction. ..."

6. The Life of John Jay: With Selections from His Correspondence and by William Jay (1833)
"He sends them « for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness;' and although ' no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous ..."

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