castigator
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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
Mr. Stevenson hints that she vanquished his stubborn heart by correcting a 'false quantity' of his one day, for he was the man to reflect over a correction, and 'admire the castigator.'
From Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro
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
So esteeming it, she had played the part of castigator.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
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 Gilbert Abbott ? Becket
