All 7 Uses
reprove
in
Sense and Sensibility
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- Sir John did not much understand this reproof; but he laughed as heartily as if he did, and then replied, "Ay, you will make conquests enough, I dare say, one way or other.†
Chpt 9reproof = criticism
- "Perhaps it is to tell you that your cousin Fanny is married?" said Mrs. Jennings, without attending to her daughter's reproof.†
Chpt 13 *
- He was recalled from wit to wisdom, not by any reproof of her's, but by his own sensibility.†
Chpt 41
- —what a reproof would she have given me!†
Chpt 44
- Were I even by any blessed chance at liberty again—" Elinor stopped him with a reproof.†
Chpt 44
- Then, remembering Colonel Brandon, reproved herself, felt that to HIS sufferings and his constancy far more than to his rival's, the reward of her sister was due, and wished any thing rather than Mrs. Willoughby's death.†
Chpt 45reproved = criticized
- Here ceased the rapid flow of her self-reproving spirit; and Elinor, impatient to soothe, though too honest to flatter, gave her instantly that praise and support which her frankness and her contrition so well deserved.†
Chpt 46reproving = criticizing or critical
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.