reprehend

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

If you can reprehend me of anie one illiberall licentious action I haue disparaged your name with, heape shame on me prodigally, I beg no pardon or pittie.

From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund

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 Earle, Alice Morse

Now, then, look at my neck and see if it is fatter than your master’s, and if you can justly reprehend me.”

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

And yet I cannot reprehend the flight, Or blame th'attempt, presuming so to soar; The mounting venture for a high delight Did make the honour of the fall the more.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote

There, this dæmon reprehends it, if it has acted on any false pretence; solemnly confirms what it says, if it asserts anything that is true; and conformably to its testimony passes sentence.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey

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 Foote, G. W. (George William)

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 Clough, Arthur Hugh

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 Samber, Robert

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

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

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

So much is this the case that it is somewhat to be reprehended as rendering afternoon teas too ceremonious in character.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.

He himself indulged overmuch in alliteration, but it was with humorous intent; and critics forgave it in him when they would have reprehended it in another.

From The Bibliotaph and Other People by Vincent, Leon H. (Leon Henry)

What is here to be reprehended? is it the cause of their punishment?

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

I grant there is a manner of reprehending which turns a benefit into an injury, and then it both strengthens error and wounds the giver.

From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by Clouston, William Alexander

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

From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare, William

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 Hobbes, Thomas

He shook a reprehending head, hoary with the snows of years, and containing therefore, presumably, wisdom.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice

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 Kipling, Rudyard