Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chiding or rebuking; censure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A chiding; rebuke; reproof.
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- noun obsolete A
rebuke orreproof .
Etymologies
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Latin increpatio.
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Examples
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Which words are only an increpation of them, not any reflection upon God, as shall appear afterwards.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823
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And now, I hope, that whosoever shall in the sincerity of his heart acquit himself as to all the foregoing duties, and thereby prepare and adorn himself to meet and converse with his Saviour at this divine feast, shall never be accosted with the thunder of that dreadful increpation from him, Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having a wedding garment?
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823
whichbe commented on the word increpation
Criticism, censure. (Luciferous Logolepsy)
May 16, 2008