Sample Sentences for
chasten
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    The harsh criticism from her mentor chastened her, prompting her to reflect more deeply on her work.
    chastened = made her realize she had done poorly
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    Three of my men were butchered before my eyes, because Jaime Lannister wished to chasten me.  (source)
    chasten = restrain behavior of
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    His son's disappearance scared and chastened him.  (source)
    chastened = humbled or restrained
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    Chastened, he says, "Sorry."  (source)
    Chastened = realizing he did wrong
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    It happened over one of those dinners that chasten all women sometimes.†  (source)
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    Isaac was laughing, but Patrick raised a chastening finger and said, "Augustus, please."  (source)
    chastening = restraining (to indicate that he should behave better)
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    Nat and the redheaded seaman who had painted the Dolphin's figurehead that morning on the river were cheerfully exchanging insults with a cluster of young bound boys who had stopped to enjoy the spectacle, the two culprits holding their own in an unchastened manner that delighted the onlookers.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unchastened means not and reverses the meaning of chastened. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Nay, by St Mary, brother Brian, you must not think you are now in Palestine, predominating over heathen Turks and infidel Saracens; we islanders love not blows, save those of holy Church, who chasteneth whom she loveth.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She chasteneth" in older English, today we say "She chastens."
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    I do—when I have an opportunity, which latterly has not been often (my mother was a Parisienne)—and there's a proverb they have, Qui aime bien chatie bien—'He chastens who loves well.'†  (source)
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    94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; 94:13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou chastenst" in older English, today we say "You chasten."
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    It was easy to believe that he was quiet because chastened, even embarrassed.  (source)
    chastened = restrained by having been made to realize he did poorly
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    In school Kantorek used to chasten Mittelstaedt with exactly the same expression—"Inadequate, Mittelstaedt, quite inadequate."†  (source)
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    When she mentioned the first husband, I noticed that, for the first time since I had met her, a shadow had settled on her face, a momentary intimation of something dark and chastening, wounding, at odds with the energetic laughs and the teasing and the loose pumpkin floral dress she was wearing.  (source)
    chastening = restraining or humbling
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