reprehend

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You are not to palliate or aggravate the offences of your brethren; but in the decision of every trespass against our rules, you are to judge with candor, admonish with friendship, and reprehend with justice.

From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by Morgan, William

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

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

He who will not to friends' advice attend; Must not complain when they him reprehend.

From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various

I will take my liberty to praise what I like, as well as they do to reprehend what they do not like.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

In submitting to your view the conduct of the troops under my command on this occasion, I find every thing to applaud, nothing to reprehend.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand