All 9 Uses
reprove
in
The Power and the Glory, by Cooke
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- A weaver works by the piece, but Mandy had been reproved too often for slovenly methods not to know that she might be fined for neglect.†
Chpt 8reproved = criticized
- "Oh, John!" she said reprovingly, 'Daily bread' is all we have anything to do with.†
Chpt 8 *reprovingly = in a critical manner
- When Stoddard's presence and help had been proffered to herself, Johnnie had not failed to find a gracious way of declining or avoiding; but you cannot reprove a sick man—a dying man.†
Chpt 14reprove = criticize
- "Sis' Johnnie—Sis' Johnnie!" crowed Deanie; and then she was aware of sober, eleven-year-old Milo climbing down over the wheel and trying to help Lissy, while Pony got in his way and was gravely reproved.†
Chpt 14reproved = criticized
- He added the saving clause under Milo's reproving eye.†
Chpt 15reproving = criticizing or critical
- Miss Sessions had smiled upon the piteous little group with a judicious mixture of patronage and mild reproof, and her driver had shaken the lines over the backs of the fat horses preparatory to moving on, when Stoddard's car turned into the street from the corner above.†
Chpt 15reproof = criticism
- I really haven't the heart to reprove her.†
Chpt 16reprove = criticize
- She cringed inwardly in remembrance; she wished she had not let Conroy make that pitying reference—unreproved, uncorrected—to Stoddard's being a rejected man.†
Chpt 24unreproved = not criticizedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreproved means not and reverses the meaning of reproved. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Aren't you always having to reprove me because I so persistently like what I like, without reference to the opinions of the world?†
Chpt 25reprove = 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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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely (though often from Shakespeare), the form reproof describes punishment rather than merely criticism.