Verb (used with object) : Age has chastened his violent temper.    From Dictionary.com. 

The real object of the fathers in chastening is not that they find pleasure in the children's pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

The objection that chastening is grievous is here anticipated and answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Their rule of chastening is what may seem fit to their own often erring judgment, temper, or caprice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Now divine chastening is a sign of divine love: Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth (Heb. xii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference

On that task, "chastening" is a mild word to apply to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner's debut of the administration's plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [QandO] Reference

In Heb 12: 7, 8 the need of "chastening" or "discipline" is inculcated; in Heb 12: 9, the duty of those to whom it is administered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Over and over again it is described as chastening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World English Bible (WEB): Job] Reference

RBS's downfall has been an astonishing, chastening sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

Argentina's economic woes have, therefore, been chastening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diego Maradona Lives to Fight Another Day] Reference

Nor are there lacking traces of strict and chastening discipline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference

Paarderberg, of its chastening effects on the "Military Situation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

And having borne a little chastening they shall receive great good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of the Apostles Creed] Reference

Yet the chastening power of classical models may be easily overrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

Then he said nothing at all about the chastening effect of suffering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweetapple Cove] Reference

Congress felt those tides with chastening force in the 1978 elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politics of Austerity] Reference

'Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference

Tell us how to live for we are shades, facing, caged, the chastening sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Loss, Turning To Poetry For Grief And Healing] Reference

A great change was observable in Mrs. Gaunt after this fiery and chastening ordeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference

Sometimes it would seem that great sorrow must have a chastening effect upon everyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference

Again it is said that chastening afterwards yields the peaceable fruits of righteousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

Traffic with the world is laid upon us for chastening, and for the testing of our vocation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leper of Saint Giles]

It is with Milton that the chastening influence of the ancients first makes itself definitely felt.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

Under these chastening influences many hearts were peculiarly open to the reception of divine truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference

But the uselessness of outward reforms, without inward chastening, did not escape the deep-thinking Jeremiah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

Long was the night of sorrow; it seemed as though day would never dawn, so deep and chastening was his grief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawn] Reference

'Lord,' says David, 'in trouble they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference

“Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them,” verse 16.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4.] Reference

Perhaps the most chastening example in recent years came not in the NFL, but in the NBA in the person of Rick Pitino.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: The Tao Of Steve] Reference

Fellow writers will find "U and I" chastening: even readers obsessed with you won't read all your stuff and won't remember it right.    From Wordnik.com.  [A 'Thing' About Updike Stalking A Literary Lion] Reference