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Definition of Chastising
1. chastise [v] - See also: chastise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chastising
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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