reprehend

If the public taste in any direction, in politics, in letters, or any of the other Arts grows debased, and current critical opinion follows the debasement, Literature can only stand apart, or loftily reprehend them.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

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 Alden, Raymond MacDonald

A man makes his conscience dumb by the very sins that require a conscience trumpet-tongued to reprehend them.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander

I do not advocate, indeed I reprehend, pretentious entertaining, such as dances, parties, etc.

From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Harland, Marion

He who will not to friends' advice attend; Must not complain when they him reprehend.

From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various

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

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

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

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

She hated his Calvinism, and thought that the spirit of scornful denunciation everywhere prevails when Cowper reprehends the errors of mankind. 

From Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield by Martin, Stapleton

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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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

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 Ruskin, John

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.

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 Hartley, Cecil B.

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 Keller, Arthur Ignatius

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 MacGowan, Alice

Here conscience flew in my face, reprehending me as a blasphemer; crying with a loud and piercing voice, Unworthy wretch! how dare you ask what you have done?

From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Defoe, Daniel

For it is a wonderful licentiousness that, discoursing of the same matters, he should when accusing Plato take away again those very things which himself sets down when reprehending Aristotle.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

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 Rhys, Ernest