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chasten
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    From there, the evening could only get worse, and he would end up dragging his hopes behind him in the manner of the chastened child who drags his stuffed bear thumping up the stairs.†  (source)
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    The men retreat inside, duly chastened.†  (source)
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    It was easy to believe that he was quiet because chastened, even embarrassed.†  (source)
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    She would be chastened, and then she would be restored to grace next Christmas, assuming she did nothing to displease Williams before then.†  (source)
    chastened = decreased confidence or criticized
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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 = decreasing confidence or criticizing
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    It happened over one of those dinners that chasten all women sometimes.†  (source)
    chasten = decrease confidence or criticize
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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)
    chasteneth = severely criticizes
    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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    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)
    unchastened = uncriticized or without decreased confidence
    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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    For all the other gods that are in Olympus hearken to thee, and we are subject every one; only her thou chastenest not, neither in deed nor word, but settest her on, because this pestilent one is thine own offspring.†  (source)
    chastenest = severely criticize or punish
    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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    Her cheeks the warmer blush of Venus wear, Chasten'd with coy Diana's pensive air.†  (source)
    Chasten'd = decreased confidence or criticized
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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)
    chastens = decreases confidence or criticizes
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    Chastened, she resumed the tones of adult conversation.†  (source)
    Chastened = decreased confidence or criticized
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    A kindergarten teacher led the small children onto the stage and the buttercups and daisies and bunny rabbits marked time and tried to follow: "Stony the road we trod Bitter the chastening rod Felt in the days when hope, unborn, had died.†  (source)
    chastening = decreasing confidence or criticizing
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