reprove
verb (used with object)
to criticize or correct, especially gently.
have reproved
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present perfectof reprove.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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Her eyelids drooped as she curtsied, and when she looked up again, in a way that seemed humility itself, to have reproved her would have appeared downright cruelty.'
From Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever
"You have reproved me twice to-night, youngster; first for being a bully, now for doubting you."
From Princess Maritza by Percy James Brebner
He must understand that I have reproved him for a fault and forgiven him.”
From Marcus: the Young Centurion by George Manville Fenn
I am afraid I said many things which were so brusque that modern society would have reproved me.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
Nay, he would have reproved me for saying so.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
