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
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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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In the present case we by no means reprehend the avoidance of issues that we have described; we merely record it.
From The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind by George Jean Nathan
Lord, in thine anger do not reprehend me, Nor in thy hot displeasure me correct; Pity me, Lord, for I am much deject, And very weak and faint; heal and amend me.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
These words pierced my heart and soul, to hear a subject thus audaciously to reprehend his Sovereign, who ever and anon replied with great magnanimity and prudence.’
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
You are not to palliate or aggravate the offences of your brethren; but in the decision of every trespass against our rules, you are to judge with candor, admonish with friendship, and reprehend with justice.
From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
Spelman, in replying to this concealed motive of the Catholic, reprehends him with equal humour and bitterness for his desire of roasting a Protestant parson.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
He reprehends other anchorets, who, upon a pretence of continual prayer, did not work at certain hours of the day, making it a cloak of gluttony and laziness.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
She hated his Calvinism, and thought that the spirit of scornful denunciation everywhere prevails when Cowper reprehends the errors of mankind.
From Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield by Stapleton Martin
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
Herein he goes beyond the bounds of knowledge, and indulges in the very dogmatism for which he reprehends the materialist.
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
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
Denison was informed, and through him, the chief justice, that his conduct to this judge was decidedly reprehended by the crown.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
Such jokes are entirely out of place and cannot be too strongly reprehended.
From From Place to Place by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
This is, of course, gross degradation; it destroys much of the dignity even of the rest of the building, and is in the very strongest terms to be reprehended.
From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
This the curious Gul did clatter in the ears of Venus, reprehending her son.
From The Golden Asse by William Adlington
If he read with care and reflection of the death of a leading citizen, he pursued the same course with regard to the reprehending of a relatively harmless vagabond.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
Stoddard looked with reprehending yet still incredulous eyes, to where Johnnie and her small following disappeared within the mill doors.
From The Power and the Glory by Arthur Ignatius Keller
R arrogated to himself the right of reprehending every one, who differed from him.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
Gladstone, gravely reprehending that Jesuit doctrine misleadingly termed Probabilism—which permits of a choice of the less probable course in morals and belief—supposed himself to be upholding a true Probabilism in Butler.
From Rationalism by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
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