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

The poet was a severe castigator, and was never less forbearing with the lash than when these impostors of his day were under his hand for flagellation.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various

Once the resolute, almost inspired, castigator of the separatist aims of that organisation, he was now in close and sympathetic association with the leaders of Afrikander nationalism in the Republics and the Cape Colony.

From Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil)

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)

And if you are to be my castigator for each offence, you will find yourself pretty well employed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various