Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To reprove; censure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To charge with a fault; chide sharply; reprove: formerly sometimes followed by of.
- To take exception to; speak of as a fault; censure.
- To convict of fallacy.
- Synonyms To blame, rebuke, reprimand, upbraid. See
admonition .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
criticize , toreprove
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb express strong disapproval of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Palmerston, who expressed himself as "extremely flattered and highly gratified" by the references to himself, did not in terms reprehend the language used of the two Sovereigns, and added, in a phrase immortalised by Leech's cartoon, that
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860
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The modification of old-fashioned rules in this regard has made the lines faint, it is true, and there is no book on etiquette that does not reprehend as “unbecoming a gentleman” smoking in drawing-rooms, boudoirs, dining-rooms, restaurants, where now men not only are allowed, and invited, to smoke, but where highly respectable women have been known to join them.
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Gentles, do not reprehend: with Hero Histories, we will mend:
This is the End My Friends | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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But above all, Sir Anthony, she should be mistress of orthodoxy, that she might not misspell and mispronounce words so shamefully as girls usually do; and likewise that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: (Mala)Props to the Houseguests. 2010
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But above all, Sir Anthony, she should be mistress of orthodoxy, that she might not misspell and mispronounce words so shamefully as girls usually do; and likewise that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : (Mala)Props to the Houseguests. 2010
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But it's odd that we have to step outside of the language of public life when we want to express authentic indignation or forcefully reprehend somebody simply for being bad, which, while I'm at it, is another word that Dickens took a lot more seriously than we do.
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Indiana, now, was preparing to scream, and Miss Margland was looking round to see whom she should reprehend; but young Westwyn, coolly opening the door, with a strong arm, and an able jerk, twisted the perfumer into the passage, saying, 'You may send somebody for your goods.'
Camilla 2008
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And that such as have a great and false opinion of their own wisdom take upon them to reprehend the actions and call in question the authority of them that govern, and so to unsettle the laws with their public discourse, as that nothing shall be a crime but what their own designs require should be so.
Leviathan 2007
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To reprehend princes is dangerous; and to over-commend some of them is palpable lying.
The White Devil 2007
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XIV., would not meet with a very gentle reception from the learned; he who is disposed to reprehend Virgil for having described King
bilby commented on the word reprehend
"I have just done rather an odd thing. Indeed, I have been casting about in my mind for a mode in which to convey its oddness, and I decided I had better ask you to imagine a civilization in which eating had ceased almost altogether. Moreover, it was officially reprehended, as a sort of bestial regression."
- 'The Expense Of Spirit', Germaine Greer in Sunday Times, 1971.
April 6, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word reprehend
I like this definition from the Century: "To convict of fallacy."
October 17, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word reprehend
It is a misprision as in this Century definition: n. More loosely, any grave offense or misdemeanor having no recognized fixed name, as maladministration in an office of public trust: also termed positive misprision, as distinguished from negative misprision, or mere neglect or concealment.
Your emprise into the Century dictionary is much appreciated, Ruzuzu.
It shouldn't be forgotten. I guess I never know what it will beget, and that is often a surprise!
*NB I am playing with different derivations of the Indo-European root ghend- ! It seized me.*
October 17, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word reprehend
Thank you.
*curtseys*
October 17, 2012
bilby commented on the word reprehend
Is anyone keeping track of the number of curtseying incidents on Wordnik?
January 10, 2016