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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

chastening en · NOUN

Meanings

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

Forms

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chastenings Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

unchastening · chasteningly

Synonyms

chastisement · chastening · correction · chastisement · gruel · punishment · castigation · castigation · punition

chastening en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of chasten
    form of chasten