Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: chastened
IPA transcription: [tʃ'eɪsənd]
Usage examples
  • Chastened and refined by experience
  • The steward brought his food in a thoroughly chastened manner.
  • "I'm going to do penance all day for coaxing Sara to disobey her mother," she announced with chastened triumph.
  • In some way chastened and purified by the mood they had been in, they became, not man and woman, not boy and girl, but excited little animals.
  • They are often distinguished by a grave and chastened beauty of style, and their solemn cadences have something of the 'grand manner' about them.
  • Then he awoke, and rose up in perfect health, and returning thanks to the Lord for his recovery, told the brothers what had been done for him; and to the joy of them all, returned the more zealously, as if chastened by the trial of his affliction, to the service which he was wont before to perform with care.