reprehend
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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
What a man saith well is not, however, to be rejected because he hath some errors; reprehend who will, in God’s name, that is, with sweetness and without reproach.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
Let none rebuke me then, none reprehend, If love so great to madness driveth me!
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
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
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
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
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
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 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
He reprehends the conjuring practices of the Nestorian priests among the Mongols, who seem to have tried to rival the indigenous Káms or Medicine-men.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
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
His modern instances are, of course, sheer blunders, and cannot be too severely reprehended; and artists must always remember that such liberties should never be taken, unless by these means some higher object is gained.
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
I never disobeyed him but in those wicked tears; and they ran the faster the more he reprehended them.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
Stoddard looked with reprehending yet still incredulous eyes, to where Johnnie and her small following disappeared within the mill doors.
From The Power and the Glory by Arthur Ignatius Keller
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
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
If he read with care and reflection of the death of a leading citizen, he pursued the same course with regard to the reprehending of a relatively harmless vagabond.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
Besides justly reprehending the French propensity towards braggadocio, it proves very strongly a point on which I am the only statesman in Europe who has strongly insisted.
From The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray
