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

Sir William Draper died with but one wish, though a sufficiently uncharitable one, that he could have found out his castigator, before he took leave of the world.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

“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

The true castigator of morals has never striven to make his subjects appear disgraceful, but to make them appear ridiculous.

From Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Here one may pause and suspect the reverend castigator of confusing several dislikes in one argument.

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir