chastening's Usage Examples:

chastening effect.

chastening thought, however, is that July 7 may be repeated at any time and those well-worked emergency plans used again.

chastening hand upon them.

It required the chastening of adversity to teach it a salutary lesson, and a few years after, when the first effects of the crisis had passed away, business was on a much sounder footing than had been the case for very many years.

chastening, experience.

Here he occupied himself in chastening the Amalekites and other robber tribes who made raids on Judah and the Philistines without distinction (xxvii.).

Synonyms:

chastisement, reproval, correction, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof,

Antonyms:

praise,