What's the difference between chasten and chastener?
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.
Chastener
Definition:
(n.) One who chastens.
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.