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reprove
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Winesburg, Ohio - by Sherwood Anderson
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So determined was she that the boy should this time feel the weight of her wrath that, although she would not allow the marshal to interfere with his adventure, she got out a pencil and paper and wrote down a series of sharp, stinging reproofs she intended to pour out upon him.†
Chpt 11

reproofs = criticisms
The reproofs she committed to memory, going about the garden and saying them aloud like an actor memorizing his part.†
Chpt 11 *
And when, at the end of the week, Seth returned, a little weary and with coal soot in his ears and about his eyes, she again found herself unable to reprove him.†
Chpt 11

reprove = criticize

Definitions:

(1) (reprove)
express disapproval or criticism -- typically in a mild manner & sometimes even in a friendly manner
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely (though often from Shakespeare), the form reproof describes punishment rather than merely criticism.