reprehend

I will take my liberty to praise what I like, as well as they do to reprehend what they do not like.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

To reprehend well is the most necessary and the hardest part of friendship.

From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston

Only, I observe, that the great censors of wit and poetry, either produce nothing of their own, or what is more ridiculous than any thing they reprehend.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden

Lord, in thine anger do not reprehend me, Nor in thy hot displeasure me correct; Pity me, Lord, for I am much deject, And very weak and faint; heal and amend me.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden

And no Man, whether Foe or Friend, Your sorry Match can reprehend.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

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

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

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

Timocreon, the Rhodian poet, reprehends him somewhat bitterly for being wrought upon by money to let some who were banished return, while abandoning himself, who was his guest and friend.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

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

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

There is but one species of affectation, to be more severely reprehended, in this connection, than that now considered; it is the opposite of this, a feigned Insensibility.

From The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

In his sermons he most severely reprehended the Indians for their barbarities to captives.

From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond

She never reprehended him but mildly, 450 When he demean’d himself rough, rude, and wildly.

From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William George Clark

Then pardon me for reprehending thee, For thou hast done a charitable deed.

From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

You may sneer at, you may censure, you may castigate them for what they really do, but beware of reprehending them for that which they have never done.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various

A similar case, at Newfoundland, was discussed in the House of Commons, and the ministers joined the opposition in severely reprehending the practice.

From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West

For it is a wonderful licentiousness that, discoursing of the same matters, he should when accusing Plato take away again those very things which himself sets down when reprehending Aristotle.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Methought he made but a poor sermon, but long, and reprehending the common jollity of the Court for the true joy that shall and ought to be on these days.

From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Richard Griffin, Baron Braybrooke