reprehend
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In cases where a man takes the liberty after this manner to reprehend others, it is commonly said, "Let him look at home."
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
In submitting to your view the conduct of the troops under my command on this occasion, I find every thing to applaud, nothing to reprehend.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart
When a man of seventy married a girl of twenty-five Calvin said it was the pastor's duty to reprehend them.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
Even my protector—he who has sworn before God and man;—but you, Louisa, will reprehend my indiscreet expressions.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
So much for the legend: and I must reprehend you for one tiny bit of Cockney about Memory’s rosary at the end of your article, which, but for that, I liked so much.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright
This we learn from an epistle of that father, in which he very severely reprehends them.
From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Robert Samber
Another talented zoologist, Hans Driesch, dedicates to the memory of Wigand two books in rapid succession and reprehends the contemporaries of that master of science for ignoring him.
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by Edwin V. O'Harra
Spelman, in replying to this concealed motive of the Catholic, reprehends him with equal humour and bitterness for his desire of roasting a Protestant parson.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
Marville justly reprehends the fastidious feelings of those ingenious men who have resisted the solicitations of the artist, to sit for their portraits.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
There, this dæmon reprehends it, if it has acted on any false pretence; solemnly confirms what it says, if it asserts anything that is true; and conformably to its testimony passes sentence.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Aubrey Stewart
Ernesto, 91, was famously reprehended in public by Pope John Paul during a visit to Nicaragua in the 1980s.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2016
Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Colonel reprehended them sharply, suspended them, and struck them out of the list of aids-de-camp of the General.
From An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol I (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Martinez de Zuniga
This is cynicism, and cannot be too strongly reprehended.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
Which when I saw I reprehended them, And ask'd the mayor what meant this wilful silence?
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Further, Mr. Prohack noticed that Sissie was eyeing her mother's necklace with a reprehending stare.
From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett
I grant there is a manner of reprehending which turns a benefit into an injury, and then it both strengthens error and wounds the giver.
From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston
This the curious Gul did clatter in the ears of Venus, reprehending her son.
From The Golden Asse by William Adlington
R arrogated to himself the right of reprehending every one, who differed from him.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
Stoddard looked with reprehending yet still incredulous eyes, to where Johnnie and her small following disappeared within the mill doors.
From The Power and the Glory by Arthur Ignatius Keller
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