0 present 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.
He derided authority, mocking it, chastening it, and inviting us to laugh at our own reverence for it and for the author himself.
This reduced the justifiable use of ornament as embellishment, at least chastening its application.
The effect is chastening, if beyond desirable remedy.
It is a chastening reminder of just how school knowledge is circumscribed and censored to remain within certain unsaid but mutually understood boundaries.
It is certainly plausible that, in many instances, being the object of a ' sacrificial measure ' of kindness may be no less spiritually therapeutic than undergoing a chastening bout of suffering.
It is a chastening thought for me that the men taken hostage are probably the grandsons of men who served alongside me.
That is a very chastening thought—that this field is being left to other countries to exploit.
The responsibility of office, facing facts and making decisions have a chastening effect.
