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
The true castigator of morals has never striven to make his subjects appear disgraceful, but to make them appear ridiculous.
From Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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
Here one may pause and suspect the reverend castigator of confusing several dislikes in one argument.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Once the resolute, almost inspired, castigator of the separatist aims of that organisation, he was now in close and sympathetic association with the leaders of Afrikander nationalism in the Republics and the Cape Colony.
From Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold
