reprehend

If the public taste in any direction, in politics, in letters, or any of the other Arts grows debased, and current critical opinion follows the debasement, Literature can only stand apart, or loftily reprehend them.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin

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

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

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

They kindly, but strongly, reprehend the first error, and guard them by the most prudent admonitions against a repetition of their fault.

From A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Sarah Scott

Mr. Hope wisely reprehends, for this reason, the arrangement of the main piers of St. Sophia at Constantinople.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin

Herein he goes beyond the bounds of knowledge, and indulges in the very dogmatism for which he reprehends the materialist.

From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote

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

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

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

This is cynicism, and cannot be too strongly reprehended.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

Another question, which may, indeed, be inquisitive, but can scarcely be reprehended, is sure to be asked: What was the experience of Lazarus during these four days?

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods

Denison was informed, and through him, the chief justice, that his conduct to this judge was decidedly reprehended by the crown.

From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West

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

Further, Mr. Prohack noticed that Sissie was eyeing her mother's necklace with a reprehending stare.

From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett

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

Gladstone, gravely reprehending that Jesuit doctrine misleadingly termed Probabilism—which permits of a choice of the less probable course in morals and belief—supposed himself to be upholding a true Probabilism in Butler.

From Rationalism by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson