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.
I am beginning to fear," said Rustem, "that Topaz may have been right to reprehend me for this journey, and I very wrong to undertake it.
From Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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
These words pierced my heart and soul, to hear a subject thus audaciously to reprehend his Sovereign, who ever and anon replied with great magnanimity and prudence.’
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
In the present case we by no means reprehend the avoidance of issues that we have described; we merely record it.
From The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind by George Jean Nathan
She hated his Calvinism, and thought that the spirit of scornful denunciation everywhere prevails when Cowper reprehends the errors of mankind.
From Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield by Stapleton Martin
Another talented zoologist, Hans Driesch, dedicates to the memory of Wigand two books in rapid succession and reprehends the contemporaries of that master of science for ignoring him.
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by Edwin V. O'Harra
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 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
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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
Such jokes are entirely out of place and cannot be too strongly reprehended.
From From Place to Place by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
He was immediately reprehended for his brusque, unsociable manner.
From Mountain Blood A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
Further, Mr. Prohack noticed that Sissie was eyeing her mother's necklace with a reprehending stare.
From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett
But yet, me thinks, the endeavour to advance the Civill Power, should not be by the Civill Power condemned; nor private men, by reprehending it, declare they think that Power too great.
From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
He sent for Harrison and Craye, reprehending them very gently for the tone they had adopted to a repentant sinner, and when they returned to their study, they used the language of despair.
From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
Then pardon me for reprehending thee, For thou hast done a charitable deed.
From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
I grant there is a manner of reprehending which turns a benefit into an injury, and then it both strengthens error and wounds the giver.
From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston
