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reprehend

[rep-ri-hend] / ˌrɛp rɪˈhɛnd /


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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

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

From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various

A letter of Rev. Andrew Eliot is still in existence referring to this presentation, and severely did he reprehend it.

From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

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

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

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

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

He had a fine artistic sense, and Milton reprehends him for having made Shakespeare “the closest companion of his solitudes.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various

Our Saviour never in any single instance reprobated the exercise of reason: on the contrary, he reprehends severely those who did not exercise it.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

At the Annual Meeting of Chiefs in 1885 they were reprehended by the Administrator, in his opening address, for their careless habit of drinking bad water.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

Which when I saw I reprehended them, And ask'd the mayor what meant this wilful silence?

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

This is cynicism, and cannot be too strongly reprehended.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

R arrogated to himself the right of reprehending every one who differed from him.

From Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 by Various

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

But yet, me thinks, the endeavour to advance the Civill Power, should not be by the Civill Power condemned; nor private men, by reprehending it, declare they think that Power too great.

From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

We of to-day must not regard the last three passages cited from the Corpus Juris Civilis as particularly reprehending the property of the master in his slave.

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

R arrogated to himself the right of reprehending every one, who differed from him.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange




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