Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of charging or censuring reproachfully; reproachful accusation; an upbraiding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Reproachful accusation; upbraiding.
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- noun obsolete
reproachful accusation ;upbraiding
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hence that common exprobration, A parliament of saints, an army of saints, and such like derisions of God's ways, -- now plentiful with them who sat sometimes and took sweet counsel with us.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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A culprit in the pillory (bate the eggs) meets with no severer exprobration.
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For it will, it must needs be, a fearful exprobration of our unworthiness, when the
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South Grenville Kleiser 1910
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Thus the idealist, out of a depth of wretchedness and self-exprobration hitherto unplumbed.
The Price Francis Lynde 1893
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Anything he could say against us would simply have the effect of holding his son up to public exprobration as a common campaign liar.
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893
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Thus when Christ accosted Jerusalem with that melting exprobration in
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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Christianus "), who was the first that employed the sword against our religion, being condemned by the senate to be punished" more majorum, "slew himself, with this exprobration of his own sordid villainy,
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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