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• n  a rebuke for making a mistake
• v  censure severely
• v  restrain
• v  correct by punishment or discipline

• The present chastening can't mean turning into a nation of overcautious, unambitious scaredy-cats.
• Even with this chastening experience, Schlesinger might still be accused of a tendency to tidy things up.
• But whatever you expect to find here, Lily Dale offers a chastening lesson.

• correction
• chastisement
• chastise
• castigate
• objurgate
• chasten
• correct
• moderate
• temper
• tame
• subdue

News & Articles

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• Nigeria thrash plucky Tahiti
  Tahiti's first taste of a major tournament was as chastening as had been predicted as Nigeria wracked up a 6-1 win with early and late bursts in Belo Horizonte.
  June 17, 2013 - Soccer365

Quotes

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• Fred Goodwin in ifaonline.co.uk
  It has been a chastening experience and reporting a pre-tax loss of £691m is something I and my colleagues regret very much,Sir Goodwin says. "In response to these new market conditions we moved decisively to strengthen our capital...
• Paul Cosgrove in Canada.com
  This is an extremely humbling and chastening experience,Cosgrove said, interrupting the sixth day of proceedings in an unusual inquiry examining his fitness to remain a judge.
• Herbert W Armstrong in theTrumpet.com
  As Mr. Armstrong wrote in The United States and Britain in Prophecy, "God is going to keep multiplying chastening-correction-upon our peoples until they do turn from their evil ways-until they turn to the ways that cause peace, happiness,...