All 8 Uses
reprove
in
Wuthering Heights
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- His peevish reproofs wakened in her a naughty delight to provoke him: she was never so happy as when we were all scolding her at once, and she defying us with her bold, saucy look, and her ready words; turning Joseph's religious curses into ridicule, baiting me, and doing just what her father hated most — showing how her pretended insolence, which he thought real, had more power over Heathcliff than his kindness: how the boy would do HER bidding in anything, and HIS only when it suited his own inclination.†
p. 29.7reproofs = criticisms
- Catherine supped with her brother and sister-in-law: Joseph and I joined at an unsociable meal, seasoned with reproofs on one side and sauciness on the other.†
p. 38.9
- Joseph remained to hector over tenants and labourers; and because it was his vocation to be where he had plenty of wickedness to reprove.†
p. 46.4 *reprove = criticize
- And if he reproved her, even by a look, you would have thought it a heart-breaking business: I don't believe he ever did speak a harsh word to her.†
p. 137.7reproved = criticized
- 'Yes, indeed,' responded her reprover.†
p. 142.5reprover = someone who criticizes
- The Heights were Heathcliff's land, and he was reproving the poacher.†
p. 155.3reproving = criticizing or critical
- I saw she was sorry for his persevering sulkiness and indolence: her conscience reproved her for frightening him off improving himself: she had done it effectually.†
p. 226.4reproved = criticized
- I shook my head reprovingly, and then she blushed and whispered — 'Well!†
p. 228.4reprovingly = in a critical manner
Definitions:
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(1)
(reprove) express disapproval or criticism -- typically in a mild manner & sometimes even in a friendly manner
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely (though often from Shakespeare), the form reproof describes punishment rather than merely criticism.