View synonyms for reprehend

reprehend

[ rep-ri-hend ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

to reprove or find fault with; rebuke; censure; blame.
Synonyms: admonish, chide, upbraid, reproach

reprehend

/ ˌrɛprɪˈhɛnd /

1300–50; Middle English reprehenden < Latin reprehendere to hold back, restrain, equivalent to re- re- + prehendere to seize; prehension

C14: from Latin reprehendere to hold fast, rebuke, from re- + prendere to grasp

The Iewes at Roan so preuailed with him by gifts, that they drew him to reprehend one who had forsaken their superstition.

A man makes his conscience dumb by the very sins that require a conscience trumpet-tongued to reprehend them.

But as you know these poets, when they are not theologists like you, will always reprehend others, and despise the theologists.

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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