chastiser

One who administers a castigation is a castigator or chastiser.

The Dowayne's chastiser had been a Mandrake adept.

But the chastiser kept on, and the rivulets swelled to streams, rivers, a flood of pain, overwhelming and drowning me.

Mindful of the fact that I was a child, the Dowayne's chastiser used a soft deerskin flogger and a delicate touch, pizzicato style.

It was not like my childhood punishment at the hand of the Dowayne's chastiser, for there was no mediator, no quota of blows.

As Jewry's pre-eminent legal authority and philosopher, he was humane and tough-minded, a comfort to Jews and a chastiser of heresy.

The memory of the Dowayne's chastiser and the adepts of Mandrake House paled beside the exquisite cruelty etched in that smile.

Chastiser of the tyrants, Saviour of the poor, Annihilator of the oppressors Thou art Dispeller of all fear.

Beyond physical attachment, Having no colour, caste, lineage or name, Thou art Destroyer of pride, Chastiser of the wicked and Bestower of emancipation.

Iravan, the "chastiser of foes"-versed in maya (illusion)-slays five of the Gandhara princes in a sword fight; Vrishava alone escapes death.

I heard her with wonder: I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance; and still less could I understand or sympathise with the forbearance she expressed for her chastiser.

There was a pause, the chastiser's rhythm broken . . . and then the air sung and the flogger came down hard, bursting against my lacerated skin in an explosion of pain.

O Lord, Thou art like an ocean with countless waves Ever mysterious, ever imperishable, Thou art the Saviour of Thy devotees and Chastiser of their enemies.

Hope saw himself, the ascetic, the missionary, the preacher, the proud foe of great kings, the saint of God, the healer, the miracle worker, the chastiser of his own flesh: and in some way he felt himself shriven.

Jorge Castañeda, Mexico's former foreign minister, has two distinct images of George W. Bush: the charmer intent on reinventing Mexican-American ties and the chastiser impatient with Mexico as the promise of a new relationship soured.

When I returned to the safekeeping of the Palace, I was calm with it, empty of the terrible sickness that had eaten at my heart for many days, suffused with the simple languor of childhood after the Dowayne's chastiser had done with me.

He enjoyed a good fight as he enjoyed little else; but presently when the first tramp succeeded in tangling his legs about the legs of his chastiser and dragging him to the ground, and the second tramp seized a heavy stick and ran forward to dash the man's brains out, Billy thought it time to interfere.