reprehend
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Sure, if I reprehend any thing in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
From The Rivals A Comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You are not to palliate or aggravate the offences of your brethren; but in the decision of every trespass against our rules, you are to judge with candor, admonish with friendship, and reprehend with justice.
From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan
I reprehend you for having forgotten, that, in proportion as you had rendered yourself formidable to our enemies, you should have been guarded and temperate in your deportment towards your fellow-citizens.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
A letter of Rev. Andrew Eliot is still in existence referring to this presentation, and severely did he reprehend it.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle
What a man saith well is not, however, to be rejected because he hath some errors; reprehend who will, in God’s name, that is, with sweetness and without reproach.
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
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
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
In which words Cælestinus reprehends this apparel, as a novelty which tended to superstition, and made way to the mocking and deceiving of the faithful.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
He had a fine artistic sense, and Milton reprehends him for having made Shakespeare “the closest companion of his solitudes.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
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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He himself indulged overmuch in alliteration, but it was with humorous intent; and critics forgave it in him when they would have reprehended it in another.
From The Bibliotaph and Other People by Leon H. (Leon Henry) Vincent
He was immediately reprehended for his brusque, unsociable manner.
From Mountain Blood A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
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
If he read with care and reflection of the death of a leading citizen, he pursued the same course with regard to the reprehending of a relatively harmless vagabond.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
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 Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 by Various
But yet, me thinks, the endeavour to advance the Civill Power, should not be by the Civill Power condemned; nor private men, by reprehending it, declare they think that Power too great.
From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
A relative of mine who is a monk," he said, "is always reprehending me, and saying: 'Lucas, you are a Free-Thinker.'...
From Cæsar or Nothing by Louis How
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