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reprehend

[rep-ri-hend] / ˌrɛp rɪˈhɛnd /


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I am beginning to fear," said Rustem, "that Topaz may have been right to reprehend me for this journey, and I very wrong to undertake it.

From Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

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 Alice Morse Earle

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

In the present case we by no means reprehend the avoidance of issues that we have described; we merely record it.

From The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind by George Jean Nathan

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

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

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 Arthur Hugh Clough

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

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

Our Saviour never in any single instance reprobated the exercise of reason: on the contrary, he reprehends severely those who did not exercise it.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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.]

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

Parson Thatcher was accused and reprehended in 1675 for making visits with a coach and four.

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

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

The excellent Jonas Hanway wrote a pamphlet reprehending this objectionable custom.

From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Austin Dobson

This the curious Gul did clatter in the ears of Venus, reprehending her son.

From The Golden Asse by William Adlington

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

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


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