reprehend

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

They were felt to be in character by the older officers; and, while obliged to reprehend, I doubt whether some of them would not have more enjoyed taking a share.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

And yet I cannot reprehend the flight, Or blame th'attempt, presuming so to soar; The mounting venture for a high delight Did make the honour of the fall the more.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Martha Foote Crow

I am beginning to fear," said Rustem, "that Topaz may have been right to reprehend me for this journey, and I very wrong to undertake it.

From Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

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

For the first attempt he reprehends Bernini, who, from want of a right conception of the province of sculpture, never fulfilled the promise given in his early work of Apollo and Daphne.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various

She hated his Calvinism, and thought that the spirit of scornful denunciation everywhere prevails when Cowper reprehends the errors of mankind. 

From Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield by Stapleton Martin

Our Saviour never in any single instance reprobated the exercise of reason: on the contrary, he reprehends severely those who did not exercise it.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each is invited in a separate stanza in which the poet reprehends the failings of the several potentates.

From The Troubadours by H.J. Chaytor

He reprehends the conjuring practices of the Nestorian priests among the Mongols, who seem to have tried to rival the indigenous Káms or Medicine-men.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule

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

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

Now, Jack has appeared in this story in very awkward circumstances, engaging himself right and left to every young lady that he fancied, with a fatal thoughtlessness, that cannot be too strongly reprehended.

From The Lady of the Ice A Novel by James De Mille

In this faithful journal, I have ventured to smile at folly; I have honestly reprehended bad passions, and I have sincerely sympathized with their victims.

From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Richard Phillips

Besides justly reprehending the French propensity towards braggadocio, it proves very strongly a point on which I am the only statesman in Europe who has strongly insisted.

From The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Celsus, assuming the person of a Jew, represents him as speaking to Jesus, and reprehending him for many things.

From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Thomas Taylor

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

He sent for Harrison and Craye, reprehending them very gently for the tone they had adopted to a repentant sinner, and when they returned to their study, they used the language of despair.

From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling

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