Enchasten

Quick meaning: Enchasten is a verb meaning (rare, chiefly literary) To render chaste.

Meaning

(rare, chiefly literary) To render chaste.

Example Sentences

I am the Child that motherless must weep, To hallow and enchasten all the land; And I am motherhood that cannot sleep, Without the pressure of a tiny hand. […]

And shall it e’er be said, that a poor hind, Nursed in the lap of Ignorance, and bred In want and labour, glows with nobler zeal To laud his Maker’s attributes, while he Whom starry Science in her cradle rock’d, And Castaly enchasten’d, with its dews, Closes his eyes upon the holy word, And, blind to all but arrogance and pride, Dares to declare his infidelity, And openly contemn the Lord of Hosts?

Word Forms

• enchastens
• enchastening
• enchastened

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chasten, chastise, rechasten, contain, encolden, chastize.

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