Punishment vs Chastening - What's the difference?
punishment | chastening |
The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
(figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling
The act by which somebody is chastened.
* Jonathan Edwards
As nouns the difference between punishment and chastening
is that punishment is the act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction while chastening is the act by which somebody is chastened.As a verb chastening is
.punishment
English
Noun
(en noun)- a vehicle that can take a lot of punishment
Synonyms
* castigation * punition * beatingAntonyms
* rewardHyponyms
* retributionDerived terms
* corporal punishment * mirror punishment * (l)chastening
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- But these chastenings are for his sins, as appears by what follows