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Definition
to express disapproval of one's actions to them
- Thou know'st not yet Atrides' secret mind: He tries us now, and may reprove us soon.1.2 — Volume 1 Book 2 (22% in)
- Agamemnon is distinguished in all the parts of a good general; he reviews the troops, and exhorts the leaders, some by praises, and others by reproofs.1.3 — Volume 1 Book 3 (99% in)
- Thus Neptune on the Greeks, reproving, call'd: Then round th' Ajaces twain were cluster'd thick The serried files, whose firm array nor Mars, Nor spirit-stirring Pallas might reprove: For there, the bravest all, in order due, Waited the Trojan charge by Hector led: Spear close by spear, and shield by shield o'erlaid, Buckler to buckler press'd, and helm to helm, And man to man; the horsehair plumes above, That nodded on the warriors' glitt'ring crests, Each other touch'd; so closely...2.13 — Volume 2 Book 13 (18% in)
- Thus Neptune on the Greeks, reproving, call'd: Then round th' Ajaces twain were cluster'd thick The serried files, whose firm array nor Mars, Nor spirit-stirring Pallas might reprove: For there, the bravest all, in order due, Waited the Trojan charge by Hector led: Spear close by spear, and shield by shield o'erlaid, Buckler to buckler press'd, and helm to helm, And man to man; the horsehair plumes above, That nodded on the warriors' glitt'ring crests, Each other touch'd; so closely...2.13 — Volume 2 Book 13 (18% in)
- But, Thoas, as thyself art ever staunch, Nor slow the laggards to reprove, thy work Remit not now; but rouse each sev'ral man."2.13 — Volume 2 Book 13 (30% in)
- Sarpedon his ungirdled forces saw Promiscuous fall before Menoetius' son, And to the Lycians call'd in loud reproof: "Shame, Lycians! whither fly ye? why this haste?2.16 — Volume 2 Book 16 (48% in)
There are no more uses of "reprove" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Edward).
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