castigantEtymologyUltimately from Latin castīgāns, present active participle of castīgō (“to castigate”). By surface analysis, castigate + -ant.castigant means one who is castigated. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 97 out of 100.nounOne 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[…]”