reprehend
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They kindly, but strongly, reprehend the first error, and guard them by the most prudent admonitions against a repetition of their fault.
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 Bartlett, John
And so he departed, continuing as long as he remained in my hearing to reprehend his younger daughter concerning her unseemly and ill-timed outbursts.
From Fibble, D.D. by Sarg, Tony
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 Gosse, Edmund
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 Symonds, John Addington
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
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 Gillespie, George
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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Hence Pope Julius I reprehends some who "keep throughout the year a linen cloth steeped in must, and at the time of sacrifice wash a part of it with water, and so make the offering."
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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 Disraeli, Isaac
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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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 Raymond, W. O. (William Odber)
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 James, Henry
Therefore a man should contract neither a high connection by which he is obliged to bow down afterwards to his kinsmen, nor a low connection, which is universally reprehended by all.
From The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 Keller, Arthur Ignatius
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 Reed, John Calvin
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 West, John
The excellent Jonas Hanway wrote a pamphlet reprehending this objectionable custom.
From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Dobson, Austin
Further, Mr. Prohack noticed that Sissie was eyeing her mother's necklace with a reprehending stare.
From Mr. Prohack by Bennett, Arnold