0 past simple and past participle of chasten
1 to make someone understand that they have failed or done something wrong and make them want to improve:
He was chastened by the defeat and determined to work harder.
Renunciation of triumphant convictions - about science, about politics - was accompanied by the maintenance of some remnant of a chastened faith.
By the 1840s, most had been chastened by experience despite optimistic speechifying and frequent modification.
But this chastened objection misses the mark as well.
The school reformed around a chastened headmaster who abandoned his ideas of reform in favor of a renewed politics of paternal leadership and personal loyalty.
Only then may we achieve ' ' reorientation, ' ' a chastened wisdom offering the basis of a new, richer ' ' simplification.
Arthur, after years of illness and exile, has returned, chastened and reduced.
They seem to have been chastened by the events of the election year, just as they accused us of having been chastened.
The chastened tenor of his speech revealed him in an entirely new light.
