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Webster 1828 Edition

Chastening

CHASTENING

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ppr.

Correcting; afflicting for correction.

CHASTENING

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Noun.

Correction; punishment for the purpose of reclaiming.

No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous. Heb. 12.

Definition 2024

chastening

chastening

English

Verb

chastening

present participle of chasten

Noun

chastening ‎(plural chastenings)

The act by which somebody is chastened.
- Jonathan Edwards
  But these chastenings are for his sins, as appears by what follows […]