reprehend

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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 Irving, Washington

Sure, if I reprehend any thing in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

From The Rivals A Comedy by Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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 Garrison, William Lloyd

If the public taste in any direction, in politics, in letters, or any of the other Arts grows debased, and current critical opinion follows the debasement, Literature can only stand apart, or loftily reprehend them.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

He who will not to friends' advice attend; Must not complain when they him reprehend.

From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various