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Hastening vs Chastening - What's the difference?

hastening | chastening |

As verbs the difference between hastening and chastening

is that hastening is while chastening is .

As nouns the difference between hastening and chastening

is that hastening is the act of speeding up; a growing faster while chastening is the act by which somebody is chastened.

hastening

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of speeding up; a growing faster.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • Miss D. had found that regular blinking, or a loud-ticking watch, or horizontal lines or marks on the ground, etc., similarly served to pace her, and to prevent the incontinent hastenings and retardations which otherwise marred her ambulation.
  • * 1991 , Christopher Pollard, The Good CD guide, 1992
    • The secret seems to be a very precise control of the subtle slackenings and hastenings of tempo that are essential to Scriabin's idiom

    chastening

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is chastened.
  • * Jonathan Edwards
    • But these chastenings are for his sins, as appears by what follows