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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of reprove.

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Examples

  • There was nothing but a welcome for all the plays, many of them already so well known, especially through Professor Baker's dramatic classes at Harvard, that we were now and again reproved by some one in the audience if a line or passage were left out, by design or forgetfulness.

    Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography 1913

  • Samuel with a word reproved, and convicted, and silenced, and sentenced him.

    Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) John Henry Newman 1845

  • The prophet having in God's name reproved the people for their sins, and given them warning of the judgments of God that were coming upon them, in this chapter prosecutes the same intention for their humiliation and awakening.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • I kind of reproved father for saying so, you remember, but it is true.

    Kilmeny of the Orchard Lucy Maud 1910

  • I kind of reproved father for saying so, you remember, but it is true.

    Kilmeny of the Orchard 1908

  • The judges of first instance discharged M. Verney, and "reproved" him.

    Napoleon the Little Victor Hugo 1843

  • Pharaoh recognized that he had been "reproved" by God (Ps

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • With such words he reproved her, then headed off toward the walls of the city.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Heinrich Böll, the Nobel Prize-winning German novelist, is reproved by Mr. Krebs for being naïve in finding Tacitus's book "surprisingly up to date" and the description of German songs "rather familiar" when he re-read the book in the 1970s.

    Hitler's Golden Book Ferdinand Mount 2011

  • With such words he reproved her, then headed off toward the walls of the city.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

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