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chastening

[ UK /t‍ʃˈe‍ɪstənɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a rebuke for making a mistake

How To Use chastening In A Sentence

  • The word used for discipline in the Bible refers to the chastening, training, or instructing of our children. The Power of A Positive Mom
  • Little Malcolm won the Silver Bear at Berlin in 1974 Cooper's next movie, the sombre and chastening Overlord, won another Silver Bear in 1975, and the post-ceremonial bacchanals were memorable indeed. Eunarchy in the UK: George Harrison's first movie
  • I hope and pray that the chastenings of our blessed Lord, in depriving us of our worldly possessions, may be sanctified to us, and lead us, more earnestly and undoubtingly, to seek for possessions in that Kingdom where all is joy, and peace, and love. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
  • This was a most chastening time for him, as he began to think about his future and what he was hoping to do with his life. A Channel of Peace
  • Their rule of chastening is what may seem fit to their own often erring judgment, temper, or caprice. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • But for the senior Saints these are chastening times. Times, Sunday Times
  • But after three chastening years, the city is rediscovering its old swagger. Times, Sunday Times
  • Pakistan suffered a chastening time. Times, Sunday Times
  • The objection that chastening is grievous is here anticipated and answered. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Germans are not the rod predestined for the chastening of these degeneracies, who knows whether we may not again, like our fathers in dim antiquity, have to gird on our swords and go forth to seek dwelling-places for our increase? Gems (?) of German Thought
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