reprehend
Americanverb (used with object)
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reprehends,
present (3rd person singular)
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reprehended,
past participle, past
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reprehending
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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reprehendsimple
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reprehendssimple
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have reprehendedperfect
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has reprehendedperfect
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am reprehendingprogressive
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are reprehendingprogressive
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is reprehendingprogressive
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have been reprehendingperfect progressive
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has been reprehendingperfect progressive
Past
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reprehendedsimple
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had reprehendedperfect
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was reprehendingprogressive
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were reprehendingprogressive
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had been reprehendingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of reprehend
1300–50; Middle English reprehenden < Latin reprehendere to hold back, restrain, equivalent to re- re- + prehendere to seize; see prehension
Example Sentences
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Powell had even gone so far as to reprehend him for having done so.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
I reprehend you for having forgotten, that, in proportion as you had rendered yourself formidable to our enemies, you should have been guarded and temperate in your deportment towards your fellow-citizens.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
They were felt to be in character by the older officers; and, while obliged to reprehend, I doubt whether some of them would not have more enjoyed taking a share.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
He who will not to friends' advice attend; Must not complain when they him reprehend.
From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various
And no Man, whether Foe or Friend, Your sorry Match can reprehend.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
He had a fine artistic sense, and Milton reprehends him for having made Shakespeare “the closest companion of his solitudes.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
Our Saviour never in any single instance reprobated the exercise of reason: on the contrary, he reprehends severely those who did not exercise it.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Each is invited in a separate stanza in which the poet reprehends the failings of the several potentates.
From The Troubadours by H.J. Chaytor
In which words Cælestinus reprehends this apparel, as a novelty which tended to superstition, and made way to the mocking and deceiving of the faithful.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
Marville justly reprehends the fastidious feelings of those ingenious men who have resisted the solicitations of the artist, to sit for their portraits.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
Ernesto, 91, was famously reprehended in public by Pope John Paul during a visit to Nicaragua in the 1980s.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2016
Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Colonel reprehended them sharply, suspended them, and struck them out of the list of aids-de-camp of the General.
From An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol I (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Martinez de Zuniga
Just now our fashionable women are bitterly reprehended for copying the dress of the "Anonymas," who establish the very pronounced fashions of Paris.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
There is but one species of affectation, to be more severely reprehended, in this connection, than that now considered; it is the opposite of this, a feigned Insensibility.
From The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
R arrogated to himself the right of reprehending every one who differed from him.
From Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 by Various
He shook a reprehending head, hoary with the snows of years, and containing therefore, presumably, wisdom.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan
Nevertheless the vicar was fearless in reprehending it, and his frank exhortations were, at least, listened to on account of the simple honesty of the man, and his well-known kindness of heart.
From The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural by Ernest Rhys
Then pardon me for reprehending thee, For thou hast done a charitable deed.
From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
A similar case, at Newfoundland, was discussed in the House of Commons, and the ministers joined the opposition in severely reprehending the practice.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
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