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

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 Munro, John

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

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

"Yes, you can," replied his castigator; "nothing's more easy; come, be merry."

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

It is somewhat harder to understand the universal assumption of our authorities that Euripides was a notorious castigator of the female sex and that the women of Athens naturally hated him.

From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert