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reprove
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synonyms: reproach, upbraid, censure ???
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Definition:to reprimand
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Levin had not the heart to reprove him.
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Joseph remained to hector over tenants and labourers; and because it was his vocation to be where he had plenty of wickedness to reprove.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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It is certain these people do not commit this as a crime; it is not against their own consciences reproving, or their light reproaching them; they do not know it to be an offence, and then commit it in defiance of divine justice, as we do in almost all the sins we commit.
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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“You are supposed to be resting,” I said reprovingly, at one point.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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he shook his head reprovingly and slammed the door.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 01 (Book One). Simon & Schuster
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"Your humility, Mr. Bingley," said Elizabeth, "must disarm reproof."
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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he growled sharp reproof now and again, or cunningly threw his weight in the traces to jerk Buck into the way he should go.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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