Definition of "castigatory" []

• Serving or tending to castigate. (adjective)
• An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; the ducking stool or trebucket. (noun)

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• "On the contrary, besides his castigatory and carping toungue, he does not seem to offer any constructive criticism for the economic doldrums we are in."
• "But this is not endemic to the writing itself, but a rather ruthless castigatory impulse directed towards self."
• "The castigatory sermon which Fräulein Rottenmeier had held in reserve for Heidi was put off till the following day, as she felt too exhausted now after all the emotions she had gone through of irritation, anger, and fright, of which Heidi had unconsciously been the cause."