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castigant

noun

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin castīgāns, present active participle of castīgō (“to castigate”). By surface analysis, castigate + -ant.

  1. derived from castīgāns

Definitions

  1. One who is castigated.

    • He first took up the historical religious manifestations of mental disease, such as the performances of the castigants, who have their latter-day imitators in the penitentes of Arizona and New Mexico[…]

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