reprover

American  

[ri-proov-er] / rɪˈpruv ər /

noun

• reprovers
  plural

1. a person who reproves, criticizes, or rebukes another.

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• reprovers
  plural

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reprover reprovers

Another indispensable requisite for the office of reprover is a character distinguished for humility and meekness.

From An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females by Catharine Esther Beecher

That I should be reproved for rapidity of judgment is very just; however quaint the situation of Mr. Gladstone, as the reprover, may seem to people blessed with a sense of humour.

From Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

The North is her passionate reprover; she is held to be, by many, her avowed enemy.

From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Nehemiah Adams

She was in 1817 the President of the Old South Charity School, and is described as a "disinterested friend, a judicious adviser, an affectionate counsellor, a mild but faithful reprover, a humble, self-denying, fervent, active, cheerful Christian."

From Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 by Anna Green Winslow

He loved the good, and was a severe reprover of the lewd and infamous.

From Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. by William Pinnock

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

Abolitionists are men who come before the public in the character of reprovers.

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

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