reprove

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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

He refused to see a doctor because he didn’t want his mission president to reprove him.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2015

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

But in Hollywood it's really tough to change genres, you have to reprove yourself.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2011

To attempt to reprove the world's ways while we profit by association with it, is vanity; the world will attach very little weight to such reproof and such testimony.

From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Mackintosh, Charles Henry