reprehend
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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
In cases where a man takes the liberty after this manner to reprehend others, it is commonly said, "Let him look at home."
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
I will take my liberty to praise what I like, as well as they do to reprehend what they do not like.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
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
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
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
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
Each is invited in a separate stanza in which the poet reprehends the failings of the several potentates.
From The Troubadours by H.J. Chaytor
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
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
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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Denison was informed, and through him, the chief justice, that his conduct to this judge was decidedly reprehended by the crown.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
Another question, which may, indeed, be inquisitive, but can scarcely be reprehended, is sure to be asked: What was the experience of Lazarus during these four days?
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods
Parson Thatcher was accused and reprehended in 1675 for making visits with a coach and four.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
Stoddard looked with reprehending yet still incredulous eyes, to where Johnnie and her small following disappeared within the mill doors.
From The Power and the Glory by Arthur Ignatius Keller
Judith noted the other players not at all; her hot reprehending eyes were on the girl in the blue dress.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan
This the curious Gul did clatter in the ears of Venus, reprehending her son.
From The Golden Asse by William Adlington
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
You may sneer at, you may censure, you may castigate them for what they really do, but beware of reprehending them for that which they have never done.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various
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