chastening's Usage Examples:

This was a chastening year for Worcestershire: in 30 County Championship matches they won not.

Twice it turns back reverently to The Robe (in flashback) as to a chastening altar, but happily soon regains its own noisy bounce in describing suggestive doings in dirty ancient Rome.

It was a chastening experience: Broadbent himself scored 2, and Extras (13) was the highest.

The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism's decline, still wish to change America.

dismay, and alienation that come with realizing the futility and meaninglessness of life as it"s normally lived; a chastening sense of our own complacency.

4-8) Lamenting God’s recent chastening of his people (vv.

That 1936-37 series in Australia had proved a fairly chastening experience for England, who won the first two Tests but lost the final.

" How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! The fable.

Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat.

9-16) Appealing to God that his chastening is not a result of their sin (vv.

To have a character address me directly was very chastening.

realizing the futility and meaninglessness of life as it"s normally lived; a chastening sense of our own complacency and foolishness in having let ourselves live.

His chastening ultimately served to overcome his mother’s and older brothers’ resistance.

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

praise,