reprover
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reprovers
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This remark was followed by a long silence, when the gentleman turned suddenly toward his reprover and inquired,— "Are you a religious man?"
From The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. by John Matthias Weylland
Out upon you, Anton Lennox, that set up for a man of God and a reprover of others.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
This fearless reprover of kings did not live to see the accomplishment of the divine messages he was commissioned to deliver, and yet he had not died: read me that riddle, if you can.
From Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside by Emily Mayer Higgins
When the soul is torn by the lashes of conscience, it needs no other reprover.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds
Le Grice, who felt his dignity hurt as a Grecian, but was more pleased at having this opportunity of mortifying his reprover, replied, with an exquisite tranquillity of assurance, "Sir, I never eat apples."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
But even Job's patience could not stand the self-sufficiency of his pious reprovers.
From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Henry J. (Henry John) Coke
Abolitionists are reprovers for the violation of duties in the domestic relations.
From An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females by Catharine Esther Beecher
The inspired interrogatory, "thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself?" enforces this principle; and the maxim of common sense, that "reprovers must have clean hands," is no less unequivocal.
From An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females by Catharine Esther Beecher
And therefore impatient reformers, and denouncing preachers, and hasty reprovers, and angry parents, and irritable relatives generally fail, in their several departments, to reclaim the erring.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
The office of the prophets under the Theocracy, which we first notice, was that of bold reprovers.
From Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows
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