castigate
/ˈkæs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.92 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Perhaps disarmed by his own scandalous behaviour with Bathsheba, he was in no position to castigate his son for a similar fault."
- "God doth indurate, when hee doth not by and by caſtigate a ſynner."
- "The curse of avarice and cupidity / Is all my sermon, for it frees the pelf. / Out come the pence, and specially for myself, / For my exclusive purpose is to win / And not at all to castigate their sin."
- "But despite all this, for Barkan, the universalist notion of an 'Ottoman feudalism' was anathema: he castigated this idea as the concentrated expression of the anti-Ottomanism of the Kemalist Enlightenment."
- "Lewis should have castigated the reasoning employed rather than the emotion, which offers no clue as to which side of the argument a person will adopt."
- "From the outset, this issue becomes an often double-edged sword wherein Japan is both valorized and castigated."
Etymology
First attested in the beginning of the 17ᵗʰ century; borrowed from Latin castīgātus, perfect passive participle of castīgō (“to reprove”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from castus (“pure, chaste”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”). Doublet of chastise and chasten, taken through Old French. See also chaste.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₂eǵ-, *ḱes-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkæs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/
- British English: /ˈkæs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
castigates (present, singular)
castigating (participle, present)
castigated (participle, past)
castigated (past)
more castigate (comparative)
most castigate (superlative)