Castigant

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who is castigated.

    "He first took up the historical religious manifestations of mental disease, such as the performances of the castigants, who have their latter-day imitators in the penitentes of Arizona and New Mexico[…]"

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"He first took up the historical religious manifestations of mental disease, such as the performances of the castigants, who have their latter-day imitators in the penitentes of Arizona and New Mexico[…]"

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin castīgāns, present active participle of castīgō (“I castigate”). By surface analysis, castigate + -ant.

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