reprehend
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They kindly, but strongly, reprehend the first error, and guard them by the most prudent admonitions against a repetition of their fault.
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 Washington Irving
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
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
Powell had even gone so far as to reprehend him for having done so.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
He reprehends other anchorets, who, upon a pretence of continual prayer, did not work at certain hours of the day, making it a cloak of gluttony and laziness.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
Spelman, in replying to this concealed motive of the Catholic, reprehends him with equal humour and bitterness for his desire of roasting a Protestant parson.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
Hence Pope Julius I reprehends some who "keep throughout the year a linen cloth steeped in must, and at the time of sacrifice wash a part of it with water, and so make the offering."
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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
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
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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For example, the word ‘governor,’ as applied to a father, is to be reprehended.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley
It did not offer itself on any single occasion to his intelligence to think that there was anything to be reprehended in this sterile dalliance.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
This is, of course, gross degradation; it destroys much of the dignity even of the rest of the building, and is in the very strongest terms to be reprehended.
From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
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
He sent for Harrison and Craye, reprehending them very gently for the tone they had adopted to a repentant sinner, and when they returned to their study, they used the language of despair.
From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
A relative of mine who is a monk," he said, "is always reprehending me, and saying: 'Lucas, you are a Free-Thinker.'...
From Cæsar or Nothing by Louis How
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
A similar case, at Newfoundland, was discussed in the House of Commons, and the ministers joined the opposition in severely reprehending the practice.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West