reprehend
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He who will not to friends' advice attend; Must not complain when they him reprehend.
From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various
Why did he not clear himself in this,—how the whole church, men, women, children and all, did doctrinally reprehend him?
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
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 Edmund Gosse
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 Henry Charles Lea
These words pierced my heart and soul, to hear a subject thus audaciously to reprehend his Sovereign, who ever and anon replied with great magnanimity and prudence.’
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
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
Each is invited in a separate stanza in which the poet reprehends the failings of the several potentates.
From The Troubadours by H.J. Chaytor
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
He denounces the Mexican war as unjust in its origin, but he reprehends its feeble conduct.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
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
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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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
Such jokes are entirely out of place and cannot be too strongly reprehended.
From From Place to Place by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
And he did so sometimes as well there, as in other places, when he thought that his men were careless, and reprehended such as were slack.
From A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.]
Methought he made but a poor sermon, but long, and reprehending the common jollity of the Court for the true joy that shall and ought to be on these days.
From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Richard Griffin, Baron Braybrooke
Judith noted the other players not at all; her hot reprehending eyes were on the girl in the blue dress.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan
Then pardon me for reprehending thee, For thou hast done a charitable deed.
From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
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 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
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