Plural of castigatory; things or people that serve to castigate, criticize, or condemn, often used in a formal or literary sense.
From castigatory (adjective meaning characterized by castigation) + -ies plural suffix; castigatory comes from Latin castigare.
This rare word is almost exclusively used in older or formal texts—'castigatories' sounds like something from a 19th-century novel, which shows how specialized vocabulary gradually disappears from common use as language evolves.
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