All 3 Uses
reprove
in
A Room With A View
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- His voice suggested sympathetic reproof but at the same time indicated that a few harrowing details would not be unacceptable.†
Chpt 5reproof = criticism
- "Lucy, dear—" said Miss Bartlett, gently reproving her cousin's penetration.†
Chpt 5 *reproving = criticizing or critical
- And he took the shoddy reproof and touched it into immortality.†
Chpt 16reproof = criticism
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.