All 7 Uses of
reprove
in
The Mill on the Floss
- "Fie, for shame!" said aunt Glegg, in her loudest, severest tone of reproof.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- "Go, go!" said Mr. Tulliver, reprovingly; "you mustn't say so.†
Chpt 2.1
- Altogether, this time of trouble was rather a Saturnalian time to Kezia; she could scold her betters with unreproved freedom.†
Chpt 3.8
- For example, she not only determined to work at plain sewing, that she might contribute something toward the fund in the tin box, but she went, in the first instance, in her zeal of self-mortification, to ask for it at a linen shop in St. Ogg's, instead of getting it in a more quiet and indirect way; and could see nothing but what was entirely wrong and unkind, nay, persecuting, in Tom's reproof of her for this unnecessary act.†
Chpt 4.3
- "Well," said Maggie, smiling, "if you meant that for a joke, it was a poor one; but I thought it was a very good reproof.†
Chpt 5.4
- In her deep humiliation under the retrospect of her own weakness,—in her anguish at the injury she had inflicted,—she almost desired to endure the severity of Tom's reproof, to submit in patient silence to that harsh, disapproving judgment against which she had so often rebelled; it seemed no more than just to her now,—who was weaker than she was?†
Chpt 7.1
- When at last she learned from Tom that Maggie had come home, and gathered from him what was her explanation of her absence, she burst forth in severe reproof of Tom for admitting the worst of his sister until he was compelled.†
Chpt 7.3
Definition:
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(reprove) express disapproval or criticism -- typically in a mild manner & sometimes even in a friendly manner