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Upbraid v. i. (past & past part. upbraided; pres. part. upbraiding)

To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed. "And upbraided them with their unbelief." "Vet do not Upbraid us our distress."

To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide. "Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done." "How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!"

To treat with contempt. (Obs.)

To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; with to before the person. (Obs.)

Synonyms: To reproach; blame; censure; condemn.

Upbraid v. i. To utter upbraidings.

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... ear is ever open to the cry of his creatures, who forgives even while he punishes their iniquities, pitied Leah, and, without upbraiding her for that deceit by which she became a wife, gave her the joys of a mother; and in all the names bestowed upon her children, Leah at once recognises the mercy of God, while she still remembers that she is ...

— Notable Women of Olden Time • Anonymous

... manner did this weak poor-spirited woman attempt to relieve her husband's pains, which it would have rather become her to aggravate, by not only painting out his misery in the liveliest colours imaginable, but by upbraiding him with that folly and confidence which had occasioned it, and by lamenting her own hard fate in being obliged to ...

— The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great • Henry Fielding

... again and again in spite of herself. In the dead of the night she had started up from her pillow with the sound of George Fairfax's familiar tones in her ears; in too many a dream she had acted over again the meeting in the orchard, and heard his voice upbraiding her, and had seen his face dark and angry in the dim light. She had done her duty to Daniel Granger; but she had not forgotten the man she had loved, and who had loved her after his fashion; and often in her prayers she had entreated that she might ...

— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon

... is brought prominently before us, that superstition's chief victims are those persons who greedily covet temporal advantages; they it is, who (especially when they are in danger, and cannot help themselves) are wont with Prayers and womanish tears to implore help from God: upbraiding Reason as blind, because she cannot show a sure path to the shadows they pursue, and rejecting human wisdom as vain; but believing the phantoms of imagination, dreams, and other childish absurdities, to be the very ...

— A Theologico-Political Treatise [Part I] • Benedict de Spinoza

... at my table. As for me, I was already on the broad window seat, looking down into the garden. Lucille was there upbraiding a gardener. I could see the nature of their conversation from the girl's face. She was probably wanting something out of season. Women often do. The man was deprecatory, and pointed contemptuously towards the heavens with a rake. There was a long silence in the ...

— Dross • Henry Seton Merriman

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