Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing reproof; reproving.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing reproof; reprehensive.
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- adjective Containing
reproof ;reprehensive .
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Examples
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'More years [1342] than I have any delight to reckon, have past since you and I saw one another; of this, however, there is no reason for making any reprehensory complaint -- _Sic fata ferunt [1343] _.
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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Monro of Lumlair, an heritor in that parish, who, upon some reprehensory expressions by Mr. Hog, which he was at first dreadfully offended at, yet were made the means of his thorough conversion, so that he ever looked on Mr. Hog after as his best friend, and laid himself out to promote the success of his ministry.
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a moment or two I became conscious that reprehensory glances were being directed towards myself, calling me, as plain as eyes could call, an ill-conditioned brute, for making the poor young creature, who was at my mercy, thus break down in public.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896
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'More years [1342] than I have any delight to reckon, have past since you and I saw one another; of this, however, there is no reason for making any reprehensory complaint ” Sic fata ferunt [1343].
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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