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Webster 1828 Edition


Unchastised

UNCHASTI'SED

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Adj.
1.
Not chastised; not punished.
2.
Not corrected; not restrained.

Definition 2024


unchastised

unchastised

English

Adjective

unchastised (not comparable)

  1. Not chastised; unpunished
    • 1777, Hannah More, Essays on Various Subjects:
      Perhaps, it is the vanity of human wisdom, unchastised by this correcting principle, which has made so many infidels.
    • 1857, Frank J. Webb, The Garies and Their Friends:
      There are laws to punish thieves and counterfeits--but such as you may go unchastised, except by the abhorrence of all honourable men.
    • 2007 October 28, Joe Queenan, “Consider the Toothpick”, in New York Times:
      [] just as the unchastised teenage shoplifter, mistaking society’s indulgence for applause, will evolve into a bloodthirsty hired killer, it is inevitable that the author of “The Pencil” will one day morph into the author of “The Toothpick.”