Reproof
[rɪ'pruːf] or [rɪ'pruf]
Definition
(n.) Refutation; confutation; contradiction.
(n.) An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach.
Editor: Maggie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Censure (given calmly), condemnation, REBUKE, reprimand, reprehension, reproach, animadversion, blame, reproval.
Editor: Miriam
Definition
n. a reproving or blaming: rebuke: censure: reprehension.—adj. Reprovable (-ōōv′-) deserving reproof blame or censure.—n. Reprov′ableness.—adv. Reprov′ably.—n. Repro′val the act of reproving: reproof.—v.t. Reprove′ to condemn: to chide: to convict: to censure: to disprove or refute.—ns. Repro′ver; Repro′ving.—adv. Repro′vingly.
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Examples
- Your humility, Mr. Bingley, said Elizabeth, must disarm reproof. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Your reproof, so well applied, I shall never forget: 'had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The clergyman stayed to exchange a few sentences, either of admonition or reproof, with his haughty parishioner; this duty done, he too departed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The reproof of an immediate conclusion of everything, the sweep of every preparation, would be sufficient. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Some very grave reproof, or at least the coldest expression of indifference, must be coming to distress her brother, and sink her to the ground. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Were I even by any blessed chance at liberty again Elinor stopped him with a reproof. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- And this particular reproof irritated him more than any other. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My reproofs at Hunsford could not work such a change as this. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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