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

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)

“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)