reprove

Example Sentences

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Alone, I reprove the thought as fantasy, a secret desire to sever myself from the man who has abandoned me twice.

From Salon • Dec. 5, 2021

That includes making do with less as they reestablish their place in society, rethink their careers and reprove their worth.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2021

Scalia’ll reprove ya With some jurisprudential effluvia, Then, with scowling harrumph And a baleful galumph, He’ll trudge homeward to Antediluvia.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2015

“You have to reprove yourself in order to establish your credibility.”

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2015

He could reprove folly with a frown that a man must be all a fool if he did not feel.

From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas