reprove
verb (used with object)
to criticize or correct, especially gently.
has reproved
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present perfectof reprove (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The Editor of Punch has reproved his Dramatic Critic for referring to It, in The Darling of the Gods, as "a precocious babe."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
I tell you, Otto," continued Jack, "I stood dumb; he has reproved us both and made us feel thoughtful, but I never had any thing that went home like that.
From Footprints in the Forest by Edward Sylvester Ellis
I don't know why she hates the poor boy so: even Mr. Cunliffe has reproved her for her want of charity.
From Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey
Southey has reproved him rather sharply for failing to write to his betrothed at Bath.
From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Charlotte has reproved me for my excesses, with so much tenderness and goodness!
From The Sorrows of Young Werther by R. Dillon Boylan
