reprehend

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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

And so he departed, continuing as long as he remained in my hearing to reprehend his younger daughter concerning her unseemly and ill-timed outbursts.

From Fibble, D.D. by Sarg, Tony

In the present case we by no means reprehend the avoidance of issues that we have described; we merely record it.

From The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind by Nathan, George Jean

Why did he not clear himself in this,—how the whole church, men, women, children and all, did doctrinally reprehend him?

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

I reprehend you for having forgotten, that, in proportion as you had rendered yourself formidable to our enemies, you should have been guarded and temperate in your deportment towards your fellow-citizens.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington