reprehend

Even my protector—he who has sworn before God and man;—but you, Louisa, will reprehend my indiscreet expressions.

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish

They were felt to be in character by the older officers; and, while obliged to reprehend, I doubt whether some of them would not have more enjoyed taking a share.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

When a man of seventy married a girl of twenty-five Calvin said it was the pastor's duty to reprehend them.

From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

In submitting to your view the conduct of the troops under my command on this occasion, I find every thing to applaud, nothing to reprehend.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

Lord, in thine anger do not reprehend me, Nor in thy hot displeasure me correct; Pity me, Lord, for I am much deject, And very weak and faint; heal and amend me.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden

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

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

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

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

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

This we learn from an epistle of that father, in which he very severely reprehends them.

From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Robert Samber

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

Lie to me, and welcome; but beware lest your own heart take you to task for it, reminding you that both anger and falsehood are reprehended by all religions, yours included.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

Now, Jack has appeared in this story in very awkward circumstances, engaging himself right and left to every young lady that he fancied, with a fatal thoughtlessness, that cannot be too strongly reprehended.

From The Lady of the Ice A Novel by James De Mille

The impression of conceit was not diminished in their eyes by the freedom with which Davidson contradicted, corrected and reprehended other people.

From Memories and Studies by Henry James

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

This is very true, and we join with the Advertiser in reprehending the course pursued by the President toward the Cherokees.

From Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe Or, the Pretended Riot Explained by William Apess

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

Nevertheless the vicar was fearless in reprehending it, and his frank exhortations were, at least, listened to on account of the simple honesty of the man, and his well-known kindness of heart.

From The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural by Ernest Rhys

Then pardon me for reprehending thee, For thou hast done a charitable deed.

From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare