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Definition
to express disapproval of one's actions to them
- As he lay in his narrow upper bunk at midnight, he saw her eyes, now impertinent, now reproving, now warm with trust in him.Chapter 3 (58% in)
- After three years on a backwoods football team he still believed with unflinching optimism that he could sterilize young men by administering reproofs, with the nickering of a lady Sunday School teacher and the delicacy of a charging elephant.Chapter 2 (94% in)
- She had often reproved Martin for his inappreciation of Howells, for wearing flannel shirts, and for his failure to hand her down from street-cars in the manner of a fiction hero.Chapter 3 (36% in)
- The reproofs with which he had planned to crush her vanished.Chapter 6 (52% in)
- He was cheerful, but never with the reproving and infuriating cheerfulness of an Ira Hinkley.Chapter 33 (96% in)
- When Martin said "damn," Clif reproved him with, "Of course I'm only a hick, but I don't think a lady like the Princess here would like you to cuss."Chapter 39 (38% in)
There are no more uses of "reprove" in Arrowsmith.
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