reprehend
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If we see a person wilfully abusing the goods of an individual, we may reprehend him, but with comparative mildness.
From Thoughts on African Colonization by William Lloyd Garrison
And no Man, whether Foe or Friend, Your sorry Match can reprehend.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
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
Even my protector—he who has sworn before God and man;—but you, Louisa, will reprehend my indiscreet expressions.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
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
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
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
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 Isaac Disraeli
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
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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Just now our fashionable women are bitterly reprehended for copying the dress of the "Anonymas," who establish the very pronounced fashions of Paris.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
For example, the word ‘governor,’ as applied to a father, is to be reprehended.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley
This is cynicism, and cannot be too strongly reprehended.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
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
This the curious Gul did clatter in the ears of Venus, reprehending her son.
From The Golden Asse by William Adlington
For it is a wonderful licentiousness that, discoursing of the same matters, he should when accusing Plato take away again those very things which himself sets down when reprehending Aristotle.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
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
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