reprehend

Now, then, look at my neck and see if it is fatter than your master’s, and if you can justly reprehend me.”

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

I do not advocate, indeed I reprehend, pretentious entertaining, such as dances, parties, etc.

From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland

I reprehend you for having forgotten, that, in proportion as you had rendered yourself formidable to our enemies, you should have been guarded and temperate in your deportment towards your fellow-citizens.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving

Besides, they belong to the service of the Muse; and so the other servant of the Muse, the Satirist, as the superintendent of the household, may reasonably reprehend or commend them.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

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 Tony Sarg

He denounces the Mexican war as unjust in its origin, but he reprehends its feeble conduct.

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

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

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

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

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

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

It was demanded, what could be reprehended in it?

From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing

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

What is here to be reprehended? is it the cause of their punishment?

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

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

From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan

Celsus, assuming the person of a Jew, represents him as speaking to Jesus, and reprehending him for many things.

From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Thomas Taylor

Here conscience flew in my face, reprehending me as a blasphemer; crying with a loud and piercing voice, Unworthy wretch! how dare you ask what you have done?

From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Daniel Defoe

In the stateroom Ramsey knelt, opened the trunk, then the tin box, and then, despite old Joy's reprehending moan, the document itself.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

Further, Mr. Prohack noticed that Sissie was eyeing her mother's necklace with a reprehending stare.

From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett