reprehend

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

Powell had even gone so far as to reprehend him for having done so.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope

He who will not to friends' advice attend; Must not complain when they him reprehend.

From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various

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

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

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

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

He reprehends the conjuring practices of the Nestorian priests among the Mongols, who seem to have tried to rival the indigenous Káms or Medicine-men.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule

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

He reprehends other anchorets, who, upon a pretence of continual prayer, did not work at certain hours of the day, making it a cloak of gluttony and laziness.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler

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

He was immediately reprehended for his brusque, unsociable manner.

From Mountain Blood A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

In this faithful journal, I have ventured to smile at folly; I have honestly reprehended bad passions, and I have sincerely sympathized with their victims.

From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Richard Phillips

He shook a reprehending head, hoary with the snows of years, and containing therefore, presumably, wisdom.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan

The excellent Jonas Hanway wrote a pamphlet reprehending this objectionable custom.

From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Austin Dobson

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

This the curious Gul did clatter in the ears of Venus, reprehending her son.

From The Golden Asse by William Adlington

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