reprove
Example Sentences
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Reprove only when alone with the person, and take not your own time, but the moment of God.
From Letters of Madam Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte
My Lord of Suffolk, Buckingham, and York, Reprove my allegation if you can, Or else conclude my words effectual.
From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William
"Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; Reprove a wise man and he will love thee."
From How to Study by Swain, George Fillmore
True; that I had forgotten; that is, Sire,510 If they e'er reached their Satrapies—why, then, Reprove me more for my advice.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
"Reprove your friend in secret, and praise him openly."
From Famous European Artists by Bolton, Sarah K.
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"Of Plymouth Plantation," Vocabulary from the historical account
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