Both Uses
reprove
in
Antony and Cleopatra
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- your reproof were well deserv'd
Scene 2.2 *reproof = criticism
- —O, I follow'd that I blush to look upon: My very hairs do mutiny; for the white Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them For fear and doting.†
Scene 3.11reprove = criticize
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.