reprobating

Whatever suspicion of complicity rested on you (1Co 5: 2, 6) through your former remissness, you have cleared off by your present strenuousness in reprobating the deed.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Arthur Lee and was pointedly severe in reprobating the system and measures that he had pursued in his public character, which he said he would fully unfold when he came to America.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Arthur Lee and was pointedly severe in reprobating the system and measures that he had pursued in his public character, which he said he would fully unfold when he came to America.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Richard; yet he spoke rather in a tone of doubt than as distinctly reprobating the measure proposed.

The Talisman 2008

Parents, by reprobating the former class of actions, and by frequently chiding their children because of them, and also by persuading to and praising the latter class, have brought it about, that the former should be associated with pain and the latter with pleasure.

The Ethics 2007

I will go far beyond him in reprobating the assumption and the incivility of my countryfolk to their cousins from beyond the sea; I grill in my blood over the silly rudeness of our newspaper articles; and I do not know where to look when I find myself in company with an American and see my countrymen unbending to him as to a performing dog.

Memories and Portraits 2005

She had led her friend astray, and it would be a reproach to her for ever; but her judgment was as strong as her feelings, and as strong as it had ever been before, in reprobating any such alliance for him, as most unequal and degrading.

Emma 2004

It was not in compliment to Jane Fairfax however that he was so indifferent, or so indignant; he was not guided by her feelings in reprobating the ball, for she enjoyed the thought of it to an extraordinary degree.

Emma 2004

But the doctor mistook the signs of the times and the minds of men, instituted himself censor of things in general, and began the great task of reprobating everything and everybody, without further promise of any millennium at all.

The Warden 2004

She was hot against the stern unforgiveness of British matrons, and equally eager in reprobating the stiff conventionalities of a religion in which she said that none of its votaries had faith, though they all allowed themselves to be enslaved.

Tales of all countries 2004