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

“You will be the death of me, I know you will, Master Chissel,” he groaned out one day, when his castigator was even severer than usual.

From Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by Lacey, C. J. de

So esteeming it, she had played the part of castigator.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

The poet was a severe castigator, and was never less forbearing with the lash than when these impostors of his day were under his hand for flagellation.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 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