reprehend
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If you can reprehend me of anie one illiberall licentious action I haue disparaged your name with, heape shame on me prodigally, I beg no pardon or pittie.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund
If we see a person wilfully abusing the goods of an individual, we may reprehend him, but with comparative mildness.
From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd
One of them only, he quotes to reprehend: “Ita amicum habeas, posse ut fieri inimicum putes.”
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
Only, I observe, that the great censors of wit and poetry, either produce nothing of their own, or what is more ridiculous than any thing they reprehend.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John
They kindly, but strongly, reprehend the first error, and guard them by the most prudent admonitions against a repetition of their fault.
