reprove

Example Sentences

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“I always feel like you have to reprove yourself,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2024

Alone, I reprove the thought as fantasy, a secret desire to sever myself from the man who has abandoned me twice.

From Salon • Dec. 5, 2021

Scalia’ll reprove ya With some jurisprudential effluvia, Then, with scowling harrumph And a baleful galumph, He’ll trudge homeward to Antediluvia.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2015

“You have to reprove yourself in order to establish your credibility.”

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2015

To attempt to reprove the world's ways while we profit by association with it, is vanity; the world will attach very little weight to such reproof and such testimony.

From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Mackintosh, Charles Henry