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Reprove v. t. (past & past part. reproved; pres. part. reproving)

1.

To convince. (Obs.) "When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment."

2.

To disprove; to refute. (Obs.) "Reprove my allegation, if you can."

3.

To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure. "What if thy son" "Prove disobedient, and, reproved, retort, "Wherefore didst thou beget me?""

4.

To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults. "He neither reproved the ordinance of John, neither plainly condemned the fastings of the other men."

Synonyms: To reprehend; chide; rebuke; scold; blame censure. Reprove, Rebuke, Reprimand. These words all signufy the expression of disapprobation. To reprove implies greater calmness and self-possession. To rebuke implies a more excited and personal feeling. A reproof may be administered long after the offience is committed, and is usually intended for the reformation of the offender; a rebuke is commonly given at the moment of the wrong, and is administered by way of punishment and condemnation. A reprimand proceeds from a person invested with authority, and is a formal and offiscial act. A child is reproved for his faults, and rebuked for his impudence. A military officer is reprimanded for neglect or violation of duty.

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"Reprove" Quotes from Famous Books

... at the end of the week, Seth returned, a little weary and with coal soot in his ears and about his eyes, she again found herself unable to reprove him. Walking into the house he hung his cap on a nail by the kitchen door and stood looking steadily at her. "I wanted to turn back within an hour after we had started," he explained. "I didn't know what to do. I knew you would be bothered, but I knew also that if I didn't ...

— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson

... stand together. I admire the ministers in a general way—and "whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth." I feel that it is my duty to pull them tenderly but firmly back by the little alpaca coat-tails whenever they have made mistakes —to reprove them in all gentleness when I find them fanning themselves with their ears for ...

— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... wast afraid to tell us of our sins, lest we should not put meat fast enough into thy mouth. O cursed wretch, that ever thou shouldst beguile us thus, deceive us thus, flatter us thus. We would have gone out to hear the word abroad, but that thou didst reprove us, and also tell us that that which we see now is the way of God was heresy and a deceivable doctrine, and wast not contented, blind guide as thou wert, to fall into the ditch thyself, but hast also ...

— The Riches of Bunyan • Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

... taste. When he first came forward, there was much noise of approval and joy among those concerned, for what he had produced was a thing full of valuable work, of humor, and of acquaintance with suffering. And his name, the same name that his teachers had once used to reprove him, the same name that he had signed to his first rhymes to the walnut-tree, the fountain, and the sea, this mixture of north and south, this plebeian name with the exotic flavor, swiftly became the standing ...

— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various

... blushed crimson. Dr. and Mrs. Kilton did not reprove the outbreak, but pardoned it ...

— A Dixie School Girl • Gabrielle E. Jackson

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