chastening
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
chastening
- present participle and gerund of chasten
Noun[edit]
chastening (plural chastenings)
- 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 […]