castigator
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Sinclair Lewis � son and grandson of doctors, onetime reporter, now 40 and the Nation's semiofficial castigator, � may be somewhat rosily seen as he has projected himself in Lie-Hunter Arrowsmith.
From Time Magazine Archive
And if you are to be my castigator for each offence, you will find yourself pretty well employed.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
Here one may pause and suspect the reverend castigator of confusing several dislikes in one argument.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Sir William Draper died with but one wish, though a sufficiently uncharitable one, that he could have found out his castigator, before he took leave of the world.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
Though he was useful as a castigator of the vices of his age, there was nothing very amiable in the rancorous and uncharitable spirit in which he performed his office.
From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?
