chastened

comparative more chastened · superlative most chastened · alternative chasten'd

1. Made chaste; purified; modest.

   As I look back over life, I see periods, which possibly have been more crowded with ecstatic enjoyment but none in which there was more pure, equable chastened happiness, than those few weeks I spent with my children.

   1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 23

2. Made moderate; restrained.

   There are, of course, better scenarios. A chastened regime could pursue some form of accommodation with America and evolution at home.

   2026 March 2, Ben Rhodes, “Trump May Come to Regret This”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   The Trump era is not quite over, however. There are still 10 days of this presidency left, and reports from the Oval Office suggest he no longer feels chastened, regretting having agreed to an orderly transition.

   2021 January 9, Julian Borger, “Insurrection Day: when white supremacist terror came to the US Capitol”, in The Guardian

3. Chastised.

alternative chasten'd

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of chasten