Chastise vs Castigate - What's the difference?
chastise | castigate |
To punish or scold someone.
To punish severely; to criticize severely; to reprimand severely.
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 261:
To revise or make corrections to a publication.
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Castigate is a synonym of chastise.
As verbs the difference between chastise and castigate
is that chastise is to punish or scold someone while castigate is to punish severely; to criticize severely; to reprimand severely.chastise
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Alternative forms
* chastize (archaic in British English and rare in American English)Verb
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* punish * castigatecastigate
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Verb
(castigat)- The curse of avarice and cupidity / Is all my sermon, for it frees the pelf. / Out come the pence, and specially for myself, / For my exclusive purpose is to win / And not at all to castigate their sin.