chastiser

American  

[chast-ahyz-er, chast-ahyz-er] / tʃæstˈaɪz ər, ˈtʃæst aɪz ər /

noun

plural

chastisers

1. a person who chastises.

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Example Sentences

I heard her with wonder: I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance; and still less could I understand or sympathise with the forbearance she expressed for her chastiser.

From Literature

"And I wouldn't want always to be a nay-sayer or a chastiser."

From BBC

A very holy man, a despiser of the world, and an inexorable chastiser of the flesh.

From Project Gutenberg

Oxford's hero in the thirteenth century was its Chancellor, Grosseteste, the friend of De Montfort and the great reformer of his day, "of prelates the rebuker, of monks the corrector, of scholars the instructor, of the people the preacher, of the incontinent the chastiser, of writings the industrious investigator, of the Romans the hammer and contemner."

From Project Gutenberg

The word rendered chastiser is in the original auf, a name made up of three phonetic hieroglyphs, namely, an arm, chick, horned snake.

From Project Gutenberg