reprehend
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While we freely reprehend their many and glaring faults, we are forced to admire and praise their energy, their heroic bravery, and their undoubted spirit of enterprise.
From The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou
Sure, if I reprehend any thing in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
From The Rivals A Comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
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
In cases where a man takes the liberty after this manner to reprehend others, it is commonly said, "Let him look at home."
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
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
Another talented zoologist, Hans Driesch, dedicates to the memory of Wigand two books in rapid succession and reprehends the contemporaries of that master of science for ignoring him.
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by Edwin V. O'Harra
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 Stapleton Martin
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
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
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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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
It was demanded, what could be reprehended in it?
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing
Therefore a man should contract neither a high connection by which he is obliged to bow down afterwards to his kinsmen, nor a low connection, which is universally reprehended by all.
From The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
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 Rudyard Kipling
The excellent Jonas Hanway wrote a pamphlet reprehending this objectionable custom.
From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Austin Dobson
You may sneer at, you may censure, you may castigate them for what they really do, but beware of reprehending them for that which they have never done.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various
Then pardon me for reprehending thee, For thou hast done a charitable deed.
From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare