All 7 Uses of
reprove
in
Mansfield Park
- …him not only totally unconscious of the uneasy movements of many of his friends as they sat, the change of countenance, the fidget, the hem! of unquietness, but prevented him even from seeing the expression of the face on which his own eyes were fixed—from seeing Sir Thomas's dark brow contract as he looked with inquiring earnestness at his daughters and Edmund, dwelling particularly on the latter, and speaking a language, a remonstrance, a reproof, which he felt at his heart.†
Chpt 19
- The reproof of an immediate conclusion of everything, the sweep of every preparation, would be sufficient.†
Chpt 20 *
- Some very grave reproof, or at least the coldest expression of indifference, must be coming to distress her brother, and sink her to the ground.†
Chpt 25
- Crawford, delighted to get her to speak at any rate, was determined to keep it up; and poor Fanny, who had hoped to silence him by such an extremity of reproof, found herself sadly mistaken, and that it was only a change from one object of curiosity and one set of words to another.†
Chpt 34
- She was then taken into a parlour, so small that her first conviction was of its being only a passage-room to something better, and she stood for a moment expecting to be invited on; but when she saw there was no other door, and that there were signs of habitation before her, she called back her thoughts, reproved herself, and grieved lest they should have been suspected.†
Chpt 38
- Susan shewed that she had delicacy: pleased as she was to be mistress of property which she had been struggling for at least two years, she yet feared that her sister's judgment had been against her, and that a reproof was designed her for having so struggled as to make the purchase necessary for the tranquillity of the house.†
Chpt 40
- She felt reproved.†
Chpt 47
Definition:
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(reprove) express disapproval or criticism -- typically in a mild manner & sometimes even in a friendly manner