reprehend

I do not advocate, indeed I reprehend, pretentious entertaining, such as dances, parties, etc.

From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland

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

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

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

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

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

Gregory himself reprehends the patriarch Eulogius for giving him in the superscription of his letter the title "universal Pope".

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

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

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

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

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

The impression of conceit was not diminished in their eyes by the freedom with which Davidson contradicted, corrected and reprehended other people.

From Memories and Studies by Henry James

I never disobeyed him but in those wicked tears; and they ran the faster the more he reprehended them.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

It did not offer itself on any single occasion to his intelligence to think that there was anything to be reprehended in this sterile dalliance.

From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray

It does not assume the office of reprehending or warning through a motive of bitter zeal.

From Fraternal Charity by Benôit Valuy

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

This is very true, and we join with the Advertiser in reprehending the course pursued by the President toward the Cherokees.

From Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe Or, the Pretended Riot Explained by William Apess

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

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