castigator

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Sinclair Lewis � son and grandson of doctors, onetime reporter, now 40 and the Nation's semiofficial castigator, � may be somewhat rosily seen as he has projected himself in Lie-Hunter Arrowsmith.

From Time Magazine Archive

So esteeming it, she had played the part of castigator.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

Though he was useful as a castigator of the vices of his age, there was nothing very amiable in the rancorous and uncharitable spirit in which he performed his office.

From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?

“You will be the death of me, I know you will, Master Chissel,” he groaned out one day, when his castigator was even severer than usual.

From Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by Lacey, C. J. de

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.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Smollett, T. (Tobias)