All 6 Uses of
reprove
in
Arrowsmith
- 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.†
Chpt 2reproofs = criticisms
- 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.†
Chpt 3reproved = criticized
- As he lay in his narrow upper bunk at midnight, he saw her eyes, now impertinent, now reproving, now warm with trust in him.†
Chpt 3 *reproving = criticizing or critical
- The reproofs with which he had planned to crush her vanished.†
Chpt 6reproofs = criticisms
- He was cheerful, but never with the reproving and infuriating cheerfulness of an Ira Hinkley.†
Chpt 33reproving = criticizing or critical
- 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."†
Chpt 39reproved = criticized
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely (though often from Shakespeare), the form reproof describes punishment rather than merely criticism.