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Quotation dates: 1399-1400
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Chasting, -yng, n. [f. Chaste v. or Chasty v.] Chastening. —a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvi. 178.
[He was] blyth in til admonestyng, & awful in to chastyng a1400 Ib. xxxvi. 540.
He wald thole na chasting