Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who castigates or corrects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who castigates or corrects.
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- noun One who
castigates .
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Examples
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Because he is a detective-defender, but not a detective-castigator.
On Why Weren't The "Good Guys" Celebrated? Jack of Kent 2009
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Al Gore, newly-minted media castigator, gnashing his teeth, throwing coiled fists against a boiling sky, appalled -- appalled!
Ron Mwangaguhunga: "HiltonGate"? And the Winner is Barbara Walters 2008
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His self image as a tough castigator, bully-in-chief, supreme forajido in a land of plenty will shatter along with his psyche.
The Battle of Wills, the Taming of ... Bush, (or is it Congress?) 2007
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The corrected quantity, to those who knew him well, will seem to have played its part; he was the man always to reflect over a correction and to admire the castigator.
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He not only acted the reformer, or rather the castigator, in the fashionable world, but also exercised his talents among the inferior class of people, who chanced to incur his displeasure.
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With one kick he shoved the castigator aside, and snatching the rattan into his own hands, he spitefully let
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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They did not take place in camera, between victim and castigator, alone with sin, but in the tumble of crowded households and even in a kind of dance through the streets.
The Child Is the Man Gordimer, Nadine 1982
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Minute after minute the castigator laboured away in his vocation, until finally the victim collapsed, and rolling over, lay like a log in a pool of blood, and was then carried off.
Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War James Allan
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The hearers alternately wept and shivered, and the professors, headed by old Dr. Holyoke (who afterwards lived to celebrate his hundredth birthday), levelled a defensive and aggressive pamphlet at their castigator; but Governor Belcher kissed the dauntless preacher, and bade him 'cry aloud and spare not, but show the people their sins.'
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With one kick he shoved the castigator aside, and snatching the rattan into his own hands, he spitefully let (Pao-yü) have ten blows and more.
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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