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castigate

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castigate (castigates, present participle castigating; past and past participle castigated)

(transitive, formal) To punish or reprimand someone severely.
- 1999, Robert P. Gordon, I & II Samuel: A Commentary, Zondervan, p. 264:
  Perhaps disarmed by his own scandalous behaviour with Bathsheba, he was in no position to castigate his son for a similar fault.
(transitive, formal) To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism.
- 2016, Halil Berktay, Suraiya Faroqhi, New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History, Routledge, p. 150:
  But despite all this, for Barkan, the universalist notion of an 'Ottoman feudalism' was anathema: he castigated this idea as the concentrated expression of the anti-Ottomanism of the Kemalist Enlightenment.
- 2001, Klaus R. Scherer, Angela Schorr, Tom Johnstone, Appraisal Processes in Emotion: Theory, Methods, Research, Oxford University Press, p. 59:
  Lewis should have castigated the reasoning employed rather than the emotion, which offers no clue as to which side of the argument a person will adopt.
- 2012, James King, Under Foreign Eyes: Western Cinematic Adaptations of Postwar Japan, John Hunt Publishing, p. 1:
  From the outset, this issue becomes an often double-edged sword wherein Japan is both valorized and castigated.
(transitive, rare) To revise or make corrections to a publication.

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