chastened
English
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[edit]chastened (comparative more chastened, superlative most chastened)
- Made chaste; purified; modest.
- 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 23:
- As I look back over life, I see periods, which possibly have been more crowded with ecstatic enjoyment but none in which there was more pure, equable chastened happiness, than those few weeks I spent with my children.
- Made moderate; restrained.
- 2021 January 9, Julian Borger, “Insurrection Day: when white supremacist terror came to the US Capitol”, in The Guardian[1]:
- The Trump era is not quite over, however. There are still 10 days of this presidency left, and reports from the Oval Office suggest he no longer feels chastened, regretting having agreed to an orderly transition.
- Chastised.
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[edit]chastened
- simple past and past participle of chasten