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

He refused to see a doctor because he didn’t want his mission president to reprove him.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2015

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

Nor did Dame Eliza reprove her carol, but half smiled as Oceanus crowed and beat a pan wildly with his Christmas horse.

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Taggart, Marion Ames