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Definition of Chastisers
1. chastiser [n] - See also: chastiser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chastisers
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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