reprehension
noun
the act of reprehending; reproof; censure.
reprehensive
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a word derived from
reprehension.
Example Sentences
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In examining this subject, I shall endeavour to be temperate, and to avoid indulging in the use of reprehensive acrimonious modes of expression.
Yet do I give you my sincere thanks for every line of your reprehensive letters; which I intend to read as often as I find my temper rises.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson
But the fact remains that office brokerage is here held in reprehensive scorn and professional office-seeking in contempt.
From Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages by Calvin Coolidge
Where Boswell expresses himself with regard to Johnson, in terms so reprehensive as the above, we cannot be accused of severity in repeating his just censure.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Samuel Johnson
There are, indeed, mannerists enough; and we mean not here to use the word in its reprehensive sense but they stand more alone.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
