reprehend
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If you can reprehend me of anie one illiberall licentious action I haue disparaged your name with, heape shame on me prodigally, I beg no pardon or pittie.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse
In cases where a man takes the liberty after this manner to reprehend others, it is commonly said, "Let him look at home."
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
Let none rebuke me then, none reprehend, If love so great to madness driveth me!
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
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
Now, then, look at my neck and see if it is fatter than your master’s, and if you can justly reprehend me.”
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
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
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 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
He denounces the Mexican war as unjust in its origin, but he reprehends its feeble conduct.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
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
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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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
He was immediately reprehended for his brusque, unsociable manner.
From Mountain Blood A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
Lie to me, and welcome; but beware lest your own heart take you to task for it, reminding you that both anger and falsehood are reprehended by all religions, yours included.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
We of to-day must not regard the last three passages cited from the Corpus Juris Civilis as particularly reprehending the property of the master in his slave.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
Then pardon me for reprehending thee, For thou hast done a charitable deed.
From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
He shook a reprehending head, hoary with the snows of years, and containing therefore, presumably, wisdom.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan
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
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