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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of rebuking or censuring; reproval.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of reprehending; reproof; censure; blame.
  • noun Synonyms Monition, etc. See admonition.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the act, or an expression, of criticism, censure or condemnation; reprimand

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an act or expression of criticism and censure

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Examples

  • Where Avicenna views comedy as the art of reprehension, we might wonder if this implies a fundamental recoognition of determina/monstrum, of that which “should not” happen.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • What about section officers – or are they above your reprehension? on January 8, 2010 at 11: 19 am Bloody Analyst

    The Smooth And Efficient Running Of A Police Station « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Where Avicenna views comedy as the art of reprehension, we might wonder if this implies a fundamental recoognition of determina/monstrum, of that which “should not” happen.

    Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009

  • In case of this kind, the attempt to swindle a distressed father on account of his long lost child is in every way deserving of the severest reprehension.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • It wouldn't take that much effort, and the results and benefits would be far more positive than the allocation of accountability and reprehension.

    Saul Segan: The Perils of Being Governed 2009

  • And do not look at the ignorance and pride of your little children; but with the enticement of your love and of your benignity, granting them that sweet discipline and benign reprehension which may please your Holiness, render peace to us, your miserable children who have offended you.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Cecilia coloured high at this pointed reprehension; but feeling her disgust every moment encrease, determined to sustain herself with dignity, and at least not suffer him to perceive the triumph of his ostentation and rudeness.

    Cecilia 2008

  • Their presumption is so notorious, that, either by disgust or alarm, it keeps off reprehension.

    Camilla 2008

  • Co., 1882; and they deserve, I think, reprehension, because they serve only to mislead; and the high authority of the source whence they come necessarily recommends them to many.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The Sub – Prior took up the matter in a tone of grave reprehension, which, as he conceived, the interest he had always taken in the family at

    The Monastery 2008

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