castigant
nounEtymology Ultimately from Latin castīgāns, present active participle of castīgō (“to castigate”). By surface analysis, castigate + -ant.
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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[…]1899, The Los Angeles Times 1899-11-01: