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What does chasten mean?

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Verb
  1. To punish (in order to bring about improvement in behavior, attitude, etc.); to restrain, moderate.
  2. To make chaste; to purify.
  3. To punish or reprimand for the sake of improvement; to discipline.
  4. To render humble or restrained.
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It can no longer be wielded to chasten people who enjoy the elaborately skilled, archaically styled, formulaic splendors of the old academy, with its devout ancestor worship and deluxe eroticism.
With some it may seem severe that God should chasten and scourge His children.
There is one who shall chasten this body of thine, put out thy torch, and unstring thy bow.
This business is going to chasten your soul, and make you mend your ways.
He might help to chasten the sentences laughed at by those newspapers.
Why was not this Thing ever present, to chasten and sober me?

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