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Chastening

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which somebody is chastened.

    "But these chastenings are for his sins, as appears by what follows[…]"

  2. 2
    a rebuke for making a mistake wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of chasten form-of, gerund, participle, present

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