Thesaurus / chastening
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synonyms for chastening
- arduous
- backbreaking
- brutal
- demanding
- excruciating
- exhausting
- fierce
- laborious
- punishing
- strenuous
- tiring
- torturous
- trying
- crushing
- fatiguing
- grinding
- hairy
- hard
- harsh
- heavy
- racking
- severe
- stiff
- chastisement
- comeuppance
- compensation
- deserving
- discipline
- disciplining
- due
- guerdon
- lumps
- meed
- merit
- payment
- penalty
- punishment
- recompense
- requital
- retribution
- return
- revenge
- reward
- right
- get hers
- get his
- talion
- what is coming to one
- what one is asking for
- abuse
- beating
- discipline
- forfeiture
- retribution
- sanction
- suffering
- torture
- trial
- amercement
- castigation
- chastisement
- comeuppance
- confiscation
- correction
- deprivation
- forfeit
- gallows
- infliction
- lumps
- maltreatment
- mortification
- mulct
- ostracism
- pain
- penance
- proof
- purgatory
- reparation
- rod
- sequestration
- unhappiness
- victimization
- disciplinary action
- hard work
- just desserts
- punitive measures
- rough treatment
- short shrift
- slave labor
- what for
On this page you'll find 173 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chastening, such as: acute, agonizing, exquisite, grueling, harrowing, and intense.
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How to use chastening in a sentence
Perhaps, without these preliminary and chastening trials, I might have met death in an unworthy manner.
MY TEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENTSILVIO PELLICOInstead, he seems to be remembered with tolerance by even those whom he visited with a chastening pen.
THE LETTERS OF AMBROSE BIERCEAMBROSE BIERCEI should rejoice to see her passing through a discipline so chastening and exalting.
ERNEST LINWOODCAROLINE LEE HENTZHe had had no experience of the chastening rod, and could not conceive that anything of the sort was needed for Amanda.
DRY FISH AND WETANTHON BERNHARD ELIAS NILSENWhatever vices I have seem to be exaggerated by my malaise—such "chastening" not answering the purpose of purification in my case.
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. II (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOTIsrael had come into Egypt to endure chastening and be made fit for national independence.
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWSTHOMAS CHARLES EDWARDSIt is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWSTHOMAS CHARLES EDWARDSA great change was observable in Mrs. Gaunt after this fiery and chastening ordeal.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 18, NO. 109, NOVEMBER, 1866VARIOUSNow, we do not like chastening; it is not joyous, but grievous.
NOTES ON THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY, VOLUME IICHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSHNothing can thwart the chastening hand of a righteous people.
ATLANTIC CLASSICSVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO CHASTENING
- abuse
- amercement
- beating
- castigation
- chastening
- chastisement
- comeuppance
- confiscation
- correction
- deprivation
- disciplinary action
- discipline
- forfeit
- forfeiture
- gallows
- hard work
- infliction
- just desserts
- lumps
- maltreatment
- mortification
- mulct
- ostracism
- pain
- penance
- proof
- punitive measures
- purgatory
- reparation
- retribution
- rod
- rough treatment
- sanction
- sequestration
- short shrift
- slave labor
- suffering
- torture
- trial
- unhappiness
- victimization
- what for
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