All 5 Uses of
chastise
in
Beloved
- I'll chastise her.†
Part 1
- Helped her endure the chastising ghost; refurbished the baby faces of Howard and Buglar and kept them whole in the world because in her dreams she saw only their parts in trees; and kept her husband shadowy but there--somewhere.†
Part 1
- Before 124 and everybody in it had closed down, veiled over and shut away; before it had become the plaything of spirits and the home of the chafed, 124 had been a cheerful, buzzing house where Baby Suggs, holy, loved, cautioned, fed, chastised and soothed.†
Part 1
- Schoolteacher had chastised that nephew,
Part 1 *chastised = scolded or criticized
- She sat in the chair licking her lips like a chastised child while Beloved ate up her life, took it, swelled up with it, grew taller on it.†
Part 3
Definition:
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(chastise) to scold or criticize