What's the difference between castigation and chasten?

Castigation


Definition:

  • (n.) Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.
  • (n.) Emendation; correction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The restaurant was already castigated by Channel Four News for serving £4 bowls of cereal in a borough in which thousands of poor families can’t afford to feed their children.
  • (2) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
  • (3) The popular mood castigated all parties as to blame for the country's troubles.
  • (4) I'd hope the consensus would be that they were out of order rather than me being castigated for not keeping quiet, or being blamed our host for failing to take the guest's bigotry into account when sending out the invitations.
  • (5) Equally, there is a striking absence of castigation of the private sector for its massive failures.
  • (6) Scalise even got castigated for such idiocy by no less than Erick Erickson , whose words and deeds usually sound like he’s auditioning for a role in a WWII movie as the piggy Bavarian Gauleiter pinching at dirndls in between faking a WWI injury to keep from getting sent to the front.
  • (7) Evaluations and policy papers alike have castigated responses and agencies for their failure to put local responders at the centre of any crisis response, but little has changed in practice.
  • (8) In a new report released on Thursday, the NAO castigated the NHS and Department of Health’s failure to collect data on the outcomes experienced by patients helped by the Cancer Drugs Fund as a major weakness.
  • (9) The move is a surprise because the health secretary had previously castigated targets as unnecessary, likely to distort NHS staff's clinical priorities and part of a bureaucratic "top-down" system he intended to overhaul.
  • (10) His revelations in Peeling the Onion were castigated by politicians and fellow authors; this time around it might be his own children who are his harshest critics.
  • (11) Earlier this week, the Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh was castigated by the local media and opposition parties for supposedly considering a softening of India's negotiating position .
  • (12) The Scottish FA has rightly been castigated for the pricing structure both for Euro 2016 qualifying matches and the friendly with England.
  • (13) At the same time he castigated the Treasury for “undermining” the rest of government with its economic forecasts.
  • (14) The follow-up Glass Spider tour was castigated for its soulless over-production.
  • (15) He also castigated those who have set ideas about what a black cultural figure should be, specifically referring to the song I Am a God, from his most recent album Yeezus.
  • (16) Ironically, it was the radio the lyrics castigated that propelled the Selecter into the top 10.
  • (17) It seems rather hard to blame Gove for biblical ignorance: a couple of years ago he was castigated for sending every school a copy of the King James Bible.
  • (18) Museveni has also castigated opposition leaders for dreaming of an Arab spring in Uganda, pointing out that most of these states are no better now than they were before.
  • (19) While I am an ex-DCLG civil servant, I do write this either in support of my former employer nor to castigate it.
  • (20) He castigated both the government and Liberal Democrats for not seeking to represent all sides of Brexit opinion.

Chasten


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.
  • (v. t.) To purify from errors or faults; to refine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The setbacks have made for a chastening climbdown for Ineos, given the confidence with which Ratcliffe announced his intentions in 2014.
  • (2) Ai emerged from his ordeal in June, far slimmer – having lost almost 10kg, some of which he has regained – and apparently chastened.
  • (3) They scramble quickly back to the feet, looking chastening but not undaunted - which is just as well because if they do not finish today's stage all their previous exertions will have been for nothing, like being expelled from college on the eve of graduation day.
  • (4) He is learning to live with the regrets - it is a chastening experience after a 45-year unblemished business career.
  • (5) But you saw the spirit in the team tonight, we kept fighting to the end.” For Leicester it was another chastening evening and one that ended with Nigel Pearson embroiled in an ugly row, in which expletives were exchanged, with a fan.
  • (6) Cameron appeared chastened, felt betrayed by Berlin.
  • (7) Liverpool’s £32.5m signing played the full 90 minutes and it must have been a chastening experience for the Belgium international.
  • (8) There was little evidence that message got through to Pellegrini's players on an afternoon that was as chastening for Manchester City as it was glorious for Cardiff.
  • (9) After all, Wilson has experienced not just the thrill of mega-success (Kaiser Chiefs' debut album Employment sold more than 2m copies) but early years of struggle and rejection, and a chastening period of diminishing returns that has seen each album sell less than its predecessor.
  • (10) Fanning's bristling performance, complete with clipped English accent, is the most chastening of the film's surprises.
  • (11) This is a chastening championship and it will be relished all the more for it.
  • (12) After a chastening week that included defeats to Liverpool and Juventus, they produced a characteristic rejoinder.
  • (13) His position was precarious before the game and it must have been a chastening walk for the manager when he turned on his heel at the final whistle and headed for the tunnel.
  • (14) It's a signal about a commitment to fairness within a more chastened and fractious coalition.
  • (15) Grant insisted he had got his information from "a very highly placed source", but seemed suitably chastened.
  • (16) The figure is down from 21 in the previous year, as a chastened BBC tries to live within the means imposed by a six-year licence fee freeze.
  • (17) Chastened, he co-founded a talent agency and clawed his way back to LA, and success, until a deal soured and ruined him by 2007.
  • (18) In its third byelection humiliation in nine weeks, Labour saw its majority of more than 13,000 evaporate in a swing of more than 22% to the SNP, a reversal even more chastening than the loss of Crewe and Nantwich in May on a 17% swing.
  • (19) James's speech helped consolidate his position as heir apparent to his father's role, but since then his capital within News Corp has declined considerably and James and Rupert have been chastened by the fallout from the hacking scandal at their News of the World tabloid – now closed – which prompted outrage last year, damaging the value and reputation of News Corp and the Murdoch family.
  • (20) But, although some historians – including David Starkey, Antony Beevor and Niall Ferguson – backed the move , the DfE seems to have been chastened by the reaction, with Gove indicating last month to the Commons education select committee that the curriculum would be changed for its next draft.