chastening

English

Verb

chastening

1. present participle and gerund of chasten

Noun

chastening (plural chastenings)

1. The act by which somebody is chastened.
   • a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, On Original Sin:

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

Derived terms

• chasteningly
• unchastening