chastening

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Verb

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chastening

  1. present participle and gerund of chasten

Noun

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chastening (plural chastenings)

  1. The act by which somebody is chastened.
    • a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, On Original Sin:
      But these chastenings are for his sins, as appears by what follows […]

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