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Chris -- 2018-04-11
While researching similar substitutions, I happened upon this sort of thing:
Charlie just shrugged and looked down at the table, as though waiting for me to chaste him for meddling.
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Leave that look alone and don’t chaste him about it Saints fans, its genetics.
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Skipper was too busy trying to calm the frantic youngest soldier to chaste him as the others had.
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I immediately got irritated and started to chaste him for wasting my time by bringing the wrong thing when the right one was so obvious in the bucket.
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“Stop it!†I chaste him and he instantly pouts.
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Will opened his mouth to chaste him but hesitated…
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So, chaste for chasten. Hmmm. I think there may be a largely unconscious meaning connection for some folks because chastity is enforced by chastening people, such as girls being admonished not to sit with their legs open, etc. Also, some perps may think the word chasten is chasting (or chastin’), the ”-ing” form of the presumed verb to chaste.
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