Definition of "chastening" [chastening]

• Present participle of chasten. (verb)

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• "The real object of the fathers in chastening is not that they find pleasure in the children's pain."
• "Their rule of chastening is what may seem fit to their own often erring judgment, temper, or caprice."
• "The objection that chastening is grievous is here anticipated and answered."