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CHASTENING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chastening mean? 

CHASTENING (noun)
  The noun CHASTENING has 1 sense:

1. a rebuke for making a mistakeplay

  Familiarity information: CHASTENING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHASTENING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A rebuke for making a mistake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

chastening; chastisement; correction

Hypernyms ("chastening" is a kind of...):

rebuke; reprehension; reprimand; reproof; reproval (an act or expression of criticism and censure)


 Context examples 


The sun lay low in the west upon a purple cloud, whence it threw a mild, chastening light over the wild moorland and glittered on the fringe of forest turning the withered leaves into flakes of dead gold, the brighter for the black depths behind them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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